Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Morrison, Laborite "Mayor of London": "Eden was stabbed in the back with an Italian stiletto...
...engaged on a deal to condone Italy's seizure of Ethiopia. The Hoare-Laval "Deal" leaked into the news a few days before its makers were ready to present it to the public as a high-minded effort to make peace on the basis of joint Anglo-French-Italian "carrying of Civilization to the barbarians of Ethiopia." It made such an ugly scandal that Mr. Baldwin had to take it all back in the House of Commons; Sir Samuel Hoare sat with tears trickling down his cheeks; Mr. Eden was made Foreign Secretary; and within a few weeks many...
Downing Street. Last week Mr. Chamberlain invited to No. 10 Downing Street the Italian Ambassador, spade-bearded Count Dino Grandi, and in Mr. Eden's presence himself made, as Prime Minister, opening moves for quickly closing the breach between London and Rome opened by Il Duce's conquest of Ethiopia and sending of troops to Spain. Mr. Eden was thus subjected by the head of the House of Chamberlain to acute personal humiliation. Saturday and Sunday, for the first time since the Abdication Crisis there were meetings of the British Cabinet. A patient, drably-dressed crowd almost filled...
...respect him for it. I have strong views, too! Of late the conviction has grown steadily on me that there has been too keen a desire on our part to make terms with others-rather than for others to make terms with us. . . . Propaganda against this country by the Italian Government is rife throughout the world. I myself pledged this House not to open conversations with Italy until hostile propaganda ceased...
...Prime Minister said: "As a result of my conversation today with the Italian Ambassador, I never was more convinced of the right of any decision than that which the Cabinet took Sunday" [drop ping Eden...