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Apart from certain tears physically shed in the House of Commons last week, apart from the unprecedented gush of emotion as His Majesty's Government admitted their Ethiopian policy to be all wrong, apart from other sensational and high strung happenings in London (see p. 12), there emerged the first clear-cut exposition of what has actually been done behind Europe's diplomatic scenes to end the Ethiopian...
Deal No. 1, not venturing to place the whole Empire under non-Ethiopian supervision, envisioned the granting to Italy of preponderant influence over somewhat less than the southern half of the country (TIME, Dec. 23). Deal No. 2 was drafted by the Emperor on the advice of his trusted Yankee friend, Mr. Everett Andrew Colson. It resembles Deal No. i in so many vital respects as to suggest that Premier Pierre Laval and Sir Samuel Hoare were not indulging in hypocrisy when they voiced confidence that Deal No. i was acceptable at least as a basis for negotiation to Italy...
Public Relations Counsel Josef Israels 2nd, who will soon set up in Manhattan a high-powered bureau of Ethiopian information, predicts that the world's news services, which he estimates to have spent over $1,000,000 in Ethiopia, will soon withdraw most of their correspondents, since the nature of the Empire makes it impossible to achieve news coverage. Mr. Israels said that the Emperor at parting told him: "Remember always that our greatest weapon against Italy is world public opinion...
...election they would bend every effort to securing a major triumph for Geneva by contriving ''through the League of Nations" to main tain the independence and territorial integrity of Ethiopia. Strong was the popular impression that no solution which did not remove the last Italian soldier from Ethiopian soil would be countenanced by His Majesty's Government...
...Paris by British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 16). It was approved by the entire Baldwin Cabinet. It was officially presented at Geneva by the British Minister for League of Nations Affairs, Anthony Eden. It was formally delivered to the Italian Government and to the Ethiopian Government by the chiefs of the French and British diplomatic missions, together with urgent advice that it be accepted by Haile Selassie and Benito Mussolini. It was published as a White Paper with the imprimatur of King George. Was this treachery to voters who believed His Majesty's Government had pledged...