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Going to Geneva as an "observer," Italy's Baron Pompeo Aloisi was no less cocky. To the Committee of Thirteen's Chairman Don Salvador de Madariaga of Spain, he snapped: "I have not come here to talk peace. I have come to attend a meeting of the Locarno Powers...
...force last week, prohibits "all intercourse between nationals'' of a Covenant-breaking State and other League States. Since the League has pronounced Italy a Covenant-breaking State, Geneva correspondents were on watch last week to see whether intercourse would be had by the Italian Chief Delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi. Zealots said it would be a "League crime" if French Premier Pierre Laval or British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare had dealings of any sort with the Fascist Baron or even spoke...
Arriving at Geneva, Sir Samuel at once invited Baron Pompeo Aloisi to his hotel. Next day Captain Eden sat in "Flying Sam's" hotel bedroom conference with the Fascist Baron, who in turn was twice closeted with Premier Laval...
...against Italy at a secret conference of League bigwigs ending at 11:10 a. m. At 11:40 the Council of the League was to make in public the decision reached in private. Two minutes before this public session began, Italy's delegation, led by eagle-bald Baron Pompeo Aloisi, ceremoniously retreated. Retiring to the League's bar the Italians each grasped a cocktail, formed themselves into a stiff circle and grimly upped bottoms in a silent toast, then withdrew to their hotel...
...Atrocious Practices." Next in Geneva the Italian case against Ethiopia was opened before the Council by Baron Pompeo Aloisi with a harsh, heavily documented address, while Italian aides passed around among the statesmen pictures taken in Ethiopia. As Captain Anthony Eden and his entourage fingered them, a Briton snorted, "The most revolting exhibit ever produced!" Wrinkling his French nose, Premier Laval remarked, "Nice, aren't they...