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...served in other Cabinets who enjoy talking off the record. Last week this strange political organism assembled privately in a House of Commons committee room to discuss the aftermath of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Even the Parliamentary innocents who revolted so violently last December against the Hoare-Laval Deal to end the Ethiopian War were convinced that there was just one thing for the British lion to do: swallow its pride, lick its wounds and try to save what was left of the League of Nations. In secret recommendations to the Foreign Office, the committee added this warning...
Italy continued to ship troops to Africa regardless. British indignation caused the collapse of the Hoare-Laval Deal for ending the Ethiopian War, but British opinion was strongly against starting another war against Italy to save Haile Selassie's dark skin...
...Muscovite one, and Frenchmen can wave the tricolor, forgetting the apparent anomoly of the white and the blue on the banner. It has long been merely a question of time before France would have to make up her mind. While the ball was being passed from Flandin to Laval to Sarraut with badly concealed clumsiness, thunder was coming from the left and fire from the right. In arriving at the crossroad, canny Frenchmen saw the issue as it really was and made a sharp left turn. If European history for the last few years can give any lessons, Gallic logic...
...Magazine. For the Left, Ovryn gives the same central position in his study of The Imperial Way to Russia's Dictator Joseph Stalin, topped by a villainous crew of imperialists: Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller Sr., Britain's Stanley Baldwin, France's Pierre Laval, Pope Pius XI, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini...
Cream separators are centrifuges. To bacteriologists who use more delicate centrifuges to whirl germs out of solutions, the name Svedberg is as familiar as the name De Laval is to dairymen. Lately at Sweden's University of Upsala, shy, black-eyed, Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Theodor Svedberg, 50, perfected two new rotors in which at normal operating speed a dime would press against the wall with a force of half a ton. One rotor he kept. The other he sent to the du Pont research laboratories at Wilmington, Del. There last week Dr. Elmer Otto Kraemer put the machine through...