Word: poison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's insistence the meeting was called to discuss once more Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, to demand either immediate cessation of hostilities or stiffer Sanctions in retaliation for Italy's use of poison...
...Foreign Secretary Eden to state his case. The use of poison gas against the Ethiopians was the point at issue, and he had eight specific instances of it between Dec. 30, and mid-March. The Suez Canal Co. reported that over 250 tons of Italian poison gas had passed the canal in the last four months. Italy must either agree to an immediate armistice or face an oil embargo, was the Eden ultimatum...
Recent Ethiopian protests to the League of Nations over the alleged use of a new poison gas by Mussolini's legions brought forth comment by chemistry department officials that it seems probable that no new poison gas of much greater intensity than new exists is likely to be developed within the next few years...
...even a chance to take up the charge that was outraging Britain last week. No sooner had blackshirt troops under ebullient Fascist Achille Starace touched Lake Tana, vital to Egypt's welfare, than the British Press and Parliament burst into shocked cries over Italy's use of poison gas. Up in the House of Lords stood bald, stoop-shouldered Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, ardent humanitarian and brother of the bearded Bishop of Exeter. In his hand he held a telegram from Haile Selassie's comely kinky-haired 16-year-old daughter, Princess Sehai. "For seven days without...
Nations, in the pious hope of getting back some of its lost colonies. Then Europe will be ready for disarmament, the outlawing of gas. poison and incendiary bombs, long-range bombardment of cities, heavy guns and tanks and in general the humanizing of all new weapons of war. Thus, concluded Adolf Hitler, will come "a new Europe on the basis of mutual respect and confidence between sovereign States...