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...faces a general election before long, considered Sir Samuel's speech in the nature of an electioneering harangue to British voters, 11,000,000 of whom have just signed a highly idealistic "peace ballot." French voters also must be harangued, and soon that olive-skinned Auvergnat, dexterous Premier Pierre Laval, mounted the Assembly rostrum. Eight minutes later, when he stepped down, M. Laval drew his arm in most friendly fashion through that of Italian Chief Delegate Baron Pompoe Aloisi and they strolled down the aisle together while editors were getting out such banner heads as: LAVAL PUTS FRANCE BEHIND LEAGUE...
...actual words of M. Laval were a dexterous triple flirtation with 1) French pro-League sentiment, 2) the British Government and 3) Benito Mussolini. First he safely trumpeted: "The doctrine of collective security . . . remains and will remain the doctrine of France! The [League] Covenant endures as our international law!" Then, in a little noted passage, he said: "On Jan. 7 last, Premier Benito Mussolini and I, not only in the interests of our two countries but also for the peace of Europe, definitely settled all those things which might be able to divide us. . . . I have neglected nothing to prevent...
...common consent Premier Laval is now the No. 1 horse-trader for Peace. His entourage said, off the record, last week that they hoped Great Britain will raise no objection to a maneuver under which the League of Nations would designate Ethiopia afresh as "free and independent," entrusting her to Italy under much the same arrangement that free & independent Irak and free & independent Egypt are under London's thumbs...
Benito for Business. The fireworks being over, the League Council, as it always does, appointed a commission. Chairmanned by Salvador de Madariaga, oldtime Spanish idealist and Leaguophile, the Commissioners were Premier Laval, Captain Eden, Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck and Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Rushtu Aras. With a show of bravado Fascist Aloisi said that "Italy reserves absolute freedom of action!" But Geneva was heavy with rumors that Dictator Mussolini had privately intimated that he was now ready to do business with the Peacemen, if they can and will do business...
...Sept. 27 this year. Italian forces were moving up last week in the belief that their zero hour will come early in October. Any time before then Il Duce is open to a fresh and better offer from Geneva than the one made at Paris by Premier Laval and Captain Eden which he turned down (TIME, Aug. 26), and the one before that made by Eden in Rome which raised such a rumpus when the House of Commons learned that this handsome young man had proposed prematurely to barter away part of the British Empire (TIME, July...