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...point except that when the League meets in regular session Sept. 4 it will simply have to discuss Italy and Ethiopia. Even such discussion the Dictator at first called "Unacceptable!" Then he grudgingly yielded. Around midnight the Big Three took time off to telephone Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, telling him as President of the Council to convene it next day. Somebody also telephoned Professor Jeze about 2 a. m. to come around and get the League formula. It provides that the totally deadlocked Italo-Ethiopian conciliation commission shall again discuss whether Italians or Ethiopians fired the first shots...
Roly-poly Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff used Geneva for years as a soap box from which, with Jewish wit, he mocked the Great Powers for the hypocrisy of their peace diplomacy, noted that League of Nations proceedings often resemble fencing in the dark with pussywillows...
Today alphabetical rotation has made brilliant, moon-faced Comrade Litvinoff the League Council's President. Last week he and Benito Mussolini fenced with pussywillows...
...Dictator, normally harsh, direct and plain, deliberately engaged with President Litvinoff in an exchange of views on the Ethiopian issue so vague, involved and fuzzy that Geneva minions could not figure out whether Il Duce meant that Italians would appear in the Council this week...
...which were down to only some $15,000,000 in 1934, have doubled in volume so far this year. This fact he turned into a feat of diplomacy by instructing William Christian Bullitt, long-suffering U. S. Ambassador in Moscow, to agree with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff that Russia, in return for the indicated increase in her purchases from the U. S. during the next twelvemonth, shall enjoy for that period a 50% reduction in the U. S. tariff on manganese, one of Russia's chief exports to the U. S., a 12½% tariff slash...