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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Anthony Eden heard that the Ethiopian Emperor had fled, that Addis Ababa was a shambles of wild disorder, that only the speedy arrival of Italian troops would save the lives of British subjects, he realized that he had steered British Foreign Policy onto the rocks. To his constituents in Leamington, he gloomily admitted defeat...
Italy continued to ship troops to Africa regardless. British indignation caused the collapse of the Hoare-Laval Deal for ending the Ethiopian War, but British opinion was strongly against starting another war against Italy to save Haile Selassie's dark skin...
...effort to save the remnants of the League, Anthony Eden and Stanley Baldwin met on Gloomy Sunday with a group of Foreign Office experts. It was almost certain that smaller nations would refuse to go on with Sanctions against Italy. Yet if the League Covenant were revamped to do away with Article XVI, which authorized the use of force in applying Sanctions, then the League could continue as an amiable debating society, publishing valuable works on the extent of white slavery, the opium traffic, and the migration of whales...
...home in Under Two Flags are Ronald Colman, who wore a kepi and baggy pants in Beau Geste ; Victor McLaglen, who has played many a bullying soldier; and Claudette Colbert, who cuddles up to the role of Cigarette, the Legion mascot who finally gallops across the desert to save the battalion from extermination by the Arabs and die dreamily in the arms of the man she loves. Colman plays the part of the Briton-with-a-past who com mits patrician misconduct with a willowy Lady Venetia (Rosalind Russell) in a ruined monastery in the desert while the sound track...
...population attended Protestant churches in 1930, the rate was down to 10.8% last year. Dejected by his findings, good Congregationalist Babson concluded through his spokesman-secretary: "If church attendance continues to peter out, our mission societies and all our other church organizations will go overboard. To save the church our laymen must go to church...