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Baron Aloisi went back to the table with small appetite for the roast. Doing his best, Capt. Eden arranged to keep the League Council in session on the Abyssinian question for a week if necessary. Meanwhile Pierre Laval got a call from headquarters: Things were going very badly at home. Crowds were nervous. Everything pointed to the fall of the Flandin Cabinet when parliament reopened early this week. The Foreign Minister had better hurry home. The last train for Paris left at 10:45 p.m. What time was it now? Nearly 9 o'clock. Mon Dieu...
With a great pouf of relief Foreign Minister Laval leaped from the table. Eager to help, Maxim Litvinoff, President of the League Council, summoned his colleagues at 12:47 a.m. At 1:37 a.m. the Council passed two interlocking resolutions. They provide that four arbitrators (Abyssinia's two and two appointed by Italy) must reach a decision by July 25, failing which a fifth arbitrator will be chosen by the League Council. All five will be given until Aug. 25 to reach agreement, after which the League Council will take things over, scratch its head, ponder...
Before dinner M. Laval and Capt. Eden had called on Abyssinia's inky-black Delegate, Pecla Hawariate, at his rooms in the Hotel Des Bergues, had told him what they were doing for his little country and advised him that the least he could do, if war could be averted, was to grant important commercial concessions in Ethiopia to Italy...
...diplomatic reputation saved, Baron Aloisi went to bed with a huge glass of bicarbonate of soda. Foreign Minister Laval left a call for the first morning train to Paris...
...Herr Hitler in an uncomfortable position. Constant sabre-rattling had driven France and Italy together, brought about the Franco-Russian accord and seemed likely to cost Germany all her recent gains with Poland. Private reports from Premier Göring's secret conversations with France's Laval in Poland showed that now if ever was the time to curry favor by beating a strategic retreat. That it should seem no retreat at all to Nazi ears, Realmleader Hitler shrewdly decided to beat it in as loud a voice as possible. When he finally stepped from the rostrum last...