Word: laval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris Bureau, staked his reputation last week on a dispatch opening with this flat statement, "Leopold III, tragic young King of the Belgians, will attempt the hazardous role of Italo-Ethiopian Peace Maker which cost Sir Samuel Hoare his Foreign Ministry and shook the prestige of Premier Laval of France. . . . Rumors current in European diplomatic quarters for several weeks that Leopold was endeavoring to bridge Anglo-Italian differences are based upon fact." Two days before, Paris Correspondent Edmond Taylor of the Chicago Tribune went off the same deep end. In Geneva fear of another "Deal" concocted behind the League...
...Leaguophiles generally. As devoted antiFascists they are now against any peaceful solution which is not against Fascism. Last week they opened a whispering campaign to the effect that only the corruption of the tellers of the French Chamber of Deputies accounts for the recent majorities received by Premier Pierre Laval. Without a scrap of proof, they rumored that the majority of 20 won by the Laval Cabinet after the Premier's defense of his efforts to make peace at Ethiopia's expense would have been a majority of only eight had the votes been honestly counted. Most Frenchmen...
...Eden's task will be to steer a course through obstacles heaped in apparently inextricable confusion. Premier Laval's clever move in leaving the final [French] decision on the oil embargo to the Chamber of Deputies makes London doubtful of the possibility of proceeding in that direction at all because the French Premier coupled this concession with the notice that there would be a need for simultaneously declaring mobilization of several classes of reservists. No French Deputy in his senses, with an election impending, can vote for putting thousands of electors into uniform...
...appears therefore that Mr. Eden's line will be to carry on the existing repressive measures while seeking conciliation by putting up several weeks hence a new.offer in a form better adapted to the views of Geneva than the ill-fated Hoare-Laval proposal...
...reproaches aimed at the Hoare-Laval plan were mainly directed at the fact that it gave too many details. The new plan will be of a much vaguer nature...