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Instead II Duce committed his Sin No. 1. Nauseated by what seemed to him the futility of the League of Nations and the many failures of international conferences to settle anything, the Dictator made a separate and sinful pact with France, which sold him for a definite quid pro quo the right, so far as France was concerned, to exercise a "free hand" in Ethiopia (TIME...
Everyone knows that those boys, when the bugle blew, were over there prepared to give their all, quo quidem, opere quid potest esse praeclarius? The state police seem to forget the fact that the possession of a uniform in 1918 gives a man a privilege, well not to be too frank, to sort of disregard the laws and not to work too hard on P.W.A. They seem to forget that our boys went through hell, hell, mind you, and also the streets of Paris and the Follies Bergere...
While thus willing to legalize Realmleader Hitler's rupture of the Treaty of Versailles as part of the quid pro quo in a general settlement, Britain and France "agreed that neither Germany nor any other power whose armaments have been defined by peace treaties is entitled by unilateral action to modify these obligations...
Meanwhile the precise text of the covenants secretly arrived at in Rome fortnight ago by Premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval remained secret last week, to the extreme vexation of the League of Nations. That M. Laval, for a political quid pro quo in Europe, had sold Abyssinia down the river to Mussolini few doubted. So far as Africa is concerned, it appeared from official summaries of the secret pacts that Italy had got from France...
...Baiata gang stepped into Lincoln Life the biggest stockholder was Harmey B (for nothing) Hill, who stayed on as board chairman. Supposedly ignorant of the plot, he was nevertheless ousted by the authorities along with the Baiata regime. Last week newshawks found him still at his office, a quid in his cheek, a book on his desk called Why Worry? What did he have to say? "I'll have plenty to say?when the time comes...