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Dexterous Auvergnat. This intrusion by Ethiopia with a plea for practical horse-trading went unnoticed by the world Press as editors ordered out their biggest headlines for the clash of British and Italian wills crystallized by Sir Samuel Hoare. He himself stepped to a Geneva microphone next night and surprisingly cried: "Let the air carry to Italy these words?that whatever bitter things may be said, they are the words of a real friend! . . . A settlement must be sought that will do justice alike to Ethiopia's national rights and Italy's claims for expansion...
This settlement in draft form was being quietly worked on by the League Committee of Five which last week seemed about to recommend that Italy receive the sort of control over Ethiopia now held by Britain over the nominally "free and independent" Kingdom of Irak. Geneva realists, aware that the British National Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin faces a general election before long, considered Sir Samuel's speech in the nature of an electioneering harangue to British voters, 11,000,000 of whom have just signed a highly idealistic "peace ballot." French voters also must be harangued, and soon...
This new policy was to give Italy a part interest in the strategic French railway penetrating the heart of Ethiopia. Signor Mussolini also received from M. Laval a "free hand" with respect to the dusky Empire (TIME, Jan. 21). In Paris the great passage in Premier Laval's speech last week was considered that in which he adroitly inferred that Sir Samuel Hoare had, by implication, promised British support to France should Germany attack her or attempt to seize Austria. Cried the Frenchman with enthusiasm while the Briton looked faintly uncomfortable: "In an address elevated in its thought, where...
...deciding what clever Sir Samuel actually meant. "It is possible to imagine Mussolini meditating various conclusions from the words used," said the Post, adding with satisfaction, "there is nothing in the speech to suggest that in the last resort England would act alone to maintain the integrity of Ethiopia." But Sir Samuel's speech was not about an English solo but rather about a European concert on behalf of Ethiopia and "when I say collective responsibility, I mean collective responsibility...
...Government that in countersigning Adolf Hitler they may have historically blundered. The air having been cleared by this revelation, the British and French Governments, said Augur, "are now agreed that nothing done at Geneva can prevent Premier Mussolini's war machine from being launched at the heart of Ethiopia. When this happens the League of Nations' procedure must take a predestined course . . . culminating eventually in a decision to apply sanctions to the aggressor state. . . . The pressure to be applied shall be economic...