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...avoided, made himself clear to the Nation this week by according Sir Samuel Hoare an hour's private audience. Such a British honor would have been unthinkable if the King had been shocked or morally revolted as Leagophiles were by "The Deal'' of Hoare & Laval...
...trap all ready for Emperor Haile Selassie waited to be sprung in case he should officially reject The Deal. It might then be eloquently said by Orator Laval that since Ethiopia had flouted and rejected "a peaceful solution conceived within the framework of the League," that affronted entity must turn the blade of Sanctions against Ethiopia and away from Italy in case Il Duce should accept the "good offices" of Britain and France within that framework. Into this trap last week the wily Ethiopian did not walk. Informally to correspondents His Majesty excoriated The Deal but he did not officially...
...Every one is asking how long it can last. But Mr. Laval proves the truth of the proverb that threatened men live long. Some say he is lucky, but his luck has recently been that of a man who thinks quicker than his opponents and is always one move ahead...
Reluctant but extraordinary tributes were paid last week by Paris' most blasé correspondents to Premier Pierre Laval, the shrewd, earthy "Honest Broker" of the negotiations to make peace at Ethiopia's expense. Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's James M. Minifie: "By his policy of obstructing the League's attempts to bring the aggressor nation to its knees, Premier Pierre Laval has gained more personal popularity in France than he has enjoyed for a long time. . . . The average man does not want to risk a fight. France is the average man, and Laval reflects...
...loudest in editorially deploring the "honest broking" of the French Premier, P. J. Philip, its longtime Paris man, felt obliged to radio: "Even in France, which has had a long succession of astute statesmen and politicians from the days of Richelieu and Mazarin to Thiers and Briand, Pierre Laval seems likely, on the present showing, to have a niche to himself...