Word: laval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State and other League States. Since the League has pronounced Italy a Covenant-breaking State, Geneva correspondents were on watch last week to see whether intercourse would be had by the Italian Chief Delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi. Zealots said it would be a "League crime" if French Premier Pierre Laval or British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare had dealings of any sort with the Fascist Baron or even spoke...
...Paris, as Premier Laval boarded a wagon-lit for Geneva, he snapped positively, "Peace will be made! It will be made despite malevolent indiscretion, spiteful controversies and misleading reports...
Arriving at Geneva, Sir Samuel at once invited Baron Pompeo Aloisi to his hotel. Next day Captain Eden sat in "Flying Sam's" hotel bedroom conference with the Fascist Baron, who in turn was twice closeted with Premier Laval...
...have now been negotiated outside the fevered atmosphere of Britain's General Election by Mr. Maurice Peterson, the quietly efficient British Foreign Office civil servant charged with Ethiopian affairs. Mr. Peterson and his French counterpart, Count Rene de Saint-Quentin, placed at the disposal of Sir Samuel, Premier Laval and Baron Aloisi last week the negotiated basis. Next logical step was to get "The Deal's" elements up into a respectable League atmosphere, and for this purpose the Great Powers turned to "Dear Little Belgium." Hot from Brussels to Geneva went Belgian Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland...
Thus dickering and dealing which continue to take place physically outside the Palace of the Nations were technically brought "within the framework of the League," although only two League States are to go on trying to make "The Deal" with Italy. In Pierre ("Honest Broker") Laval's entourage indignation was expressed that Socialist and anti-Fascist officials in France have been doing their best to wreck "The Deal" and embarrass His Majesty's Government by premature disclosures. For M. Laval, it was said, "From now on he will deny every disclosure! Absolute secrecy at this stage is imperative...