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Recalling the fact that some months ago Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain- and the then Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare were major rivals to succeed Squire Baldwin, "Augur" made the direct charge that Mr. Chamberlain and not British public opinion was chiefly responsible for knifing the Hoare-Laval deal which might have made peace between Italy and Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30). In the case of the present White Paper, upon which Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Eden jointly lavished their best efforts, "Augur" charged that this was last week in course of being knifed by Sir Samuel Hoare & friends...
Something Better? The "something better" was being urged upon harassed, obfuscated Squire Baldwin by the Permanent Undersecretary of the British Foreign Office, tenacious Sir Robert Vansittart, who nearly enabled his chief, Sir Samuel Hoare, to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia by the Hoare-Laval Deal (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week Sir Robert was busy with a prospective Baldwin-Flandin scheme of audacious reasonable ness, nothing less than that Britain should enter a new treaty nailing down not only the Western Locarno frontier but also the Eastern frontier of Germany with a British-French-German-Russian-Polish- Dutch-Danish-Lithuanian...
...Misguided friends of Ethiopia," cried Lord Mansfield, "brought about rejection of the Hoare-Laval proposals, wherefore Ethiopia will now have to accept worse terms...
...course of debates last December, the Prime Minister startled the House and country by the use of language such as none of us had heard in our experience from a Minister of the Crown. Referring to the Hoare-Laval proposals, Mr. Baldwin then said, 'Were these troubles over, I would make my case, and I guarantee not a man would vote against me, but my lips are sealed...
...Minister is that same moose-tall, fair-haired Pierre Etienne Flandin who as Premier appointed Jean Samson Tannery to be Governor of the Bank of France. Communists and Socialists, elated at the formation of a Left Centre Cabinet in succession to the Centre Cabinet of millionaire ex-Premier Pierre Laval, voiced their satisfaction through millionaire Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Said he: "In our eyes the Cabinet of M. Sarraut has the infinite merit that it is not headed by M. Laval." For the first time in French history the Communist Deputies, when a vote of confidence was asked...