Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eden's stops in Paris, before and after he visited Rome last week, Premier Laval first obtained from him Great Britain's promise, then informed him it had been broken. In private M. Laval's words were tart, but in public he made pointed demonstration of his warm personal friendship for the harassed young man who is Britain's Minister Without Portfolio for League of Nations Affairs. Together they dined & wined in a Paris restaurant, later appeared arm in arm in the gallery of the Chamber of Deputies with the explanation that "Captain Eden wishes to observe the Chamber...
...Rome the dander of Benito Mussolini rose. For weeks he has been morally reproached by British newsorgans for his designs on Ethiopia. "On,the one hand Britain has attempted to invoke the League of Nations to restrain Italy, and on the other hand, Britain sanctions with Germany treaty violations presumably repugnant to all good league members!" exclaimed Il Duce's family newsorgan Il Popolo d'Italia. It added sarcastically: "Maybe, some day, the British-German accord will be pompously registered with the League, presumably, too, with the assent of the Delegate of Ethiopia...
Next job for Minister Eden was to soft-soap Premier Mussolini, clarify his country's position. To that end smooth Mr. Eden trickled down to Rome, turned on his charm. Il Duce likewise turned on his charm, with the result that their conversation was marked by a cordiality quite removed from the slight frigidity which attended Mr. Eden's explanations to France. Reserving most of his diplomatic honey for a second conversation to be held next day, Mr. Eden nevertheless found time in two hours to assure Signor Mussolini that Britain would make no further bilateral agreements with...
Chicago's high-spirited Tribune, having announced that it will no longer maintain a correspondent in Rome to "take government handouts" (TIME, June 24), last week obtained from Correspondent Will Barber in Djibouti, French Somaliland, a lurid account of what goes on in neighboring Italian Eritrea as the Dictator's forces get ready to fight after the summer rains...
...sovereignty, the independence, and the territorial and administrative integrity of China." This pledge is now no more than wind among the willows, so disinclined are other Great Powers to hold Japan to their common pledge. Therefore the result of Chinese diplomatic protests last week in Washington, London, Paris, Rome, Lisbon, The Hague and Brussels was approximately zero...