Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoare-Laval Deal to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia, mainly at the expense of Ethiopia but leaving the greater and by far the richest portion of the Empire intact (TIME, Dec. 23), Sir Samuel approached not apologetically but with a brisk question as to whether the House knew what other and spontaneous proposals for peace have in fact been made by the Emperor, the Dictator and the League. Ignorance was obvious on all sides. Many M.P.s sat up to listen as though hearing for the first time much which they might have read weeks and months...
...have been terrified," cried Sir Samuel, "at the thought we might lead Ethiopia to think the League could do more than it can, and that finally we should find a terrible moment of disillusionment in which Ethiopia might be altogether destroyed as an independent State...
...Never Say Die!" In addition to thus ramming the perfidy of Albion down Albion's throat amid well-bred cries of "Hear! Hear!", the astonishing 45-minute address of Sir Samuel branched into a legal demonstration that the broad principles of The Deal, whatever its defects in detail, are identically the same broad principles enunciated by the League of Nations' Committee of Five...
...strongest part of his speech Sir Samuel declared: "The fact is there are only two ways of ending war-either peace by negotiation or peace by surrender. If it is to be peace by negotiation, I don't believe myself when the time comes that it will not be found peace will have to be made upon the principles I have stated. ... If it is to be peace by surrender it will mean complete collapse of one or the other of the belligerents. My own view-and I have stated it frankly to the House -is that I believe...
...Samuel concluded that failure of The Deal to go through last week far enough to lay a groundwork for further negotiations "makes the position more difficult and dangerous than it was before. ... I believe that, unless these facts are faced and faced in the immediate future, either the League will break up or a most unsatisfactory peace will result from the conflict which is now taking place...