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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...
...ratified last week by Britain. In a love feast of honeyed speeches the 52 nations which voted last week for Nov. 18, omitted without exception to denounce Italy, mostly spoke of her as their "old friend" and pledged "continued loyalty" to the League Covenant. They nodded sagely when Premier Laval recalled, as meaningly as possible last week, that only last January he sat down with Premier Mussolini and signed a "treaty"-one of the quid pro quos being a free hand for Italy in Ethiopia...
...Honest Broker" between Britain and Italy, French Premier Pierre Laval has based all his efforts upon convincing His Majesty's Government that the Ethiopian war is no world-shaking matter on which the League's future or Britain's depends but a mere affair of "some localized area." Last week the appearance of this phrase in a speech by Squire Baldwin was a leading development. Though some excited citizens still put the issue to themselves in terms of the necessity of preserving Ethiopian independence at all costs, many a British citizen was commencing to ask himself last...