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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What King George wanted everyone to know was that His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Samuel Hoare had cabled to Sir Sidney: "You should use your utmost influence to induce The Emperor to give careful and favorable consideration to these proposals and on no account lightly to reject them. On the contrary, I feel sure that he will give further proof of his statesmanship by realizing the negotiation which they afford and will avail himself of them...
Signs of any such rearrangement were particularly scarce in India last week, both the vernacular and English language Press fulminating in the vein of New Delhi's Statesman: "The proposals are already dead. The Negus and the whole world will not have them. Sir Samuel Hoare has done irreparable damage to the Baldwin Government and to the moral leadership of Britain." No doubt Editor Garvin thought he was seeing eye-to-eye with King George when he added in the Sunday Observer: "Further sanctions intended to throttle Italy would set fire to the world. . . . The air would rain terrors...
...gentlemen friends and the gentlemen friends of Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham in the London Government. Paradoxically, able Ambassador Breckinridge Long has been getting much of his cold dope from British Ambassador Eric Drummond, now in Rome after 14 years as Secretary General of the League of Nations. It was Sir Eric who handed over the table to Il Duce last week one of the hardest wallops Geneva has yet received...
British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare had broken his nose while ice-skating at Zuoz. "Flying Sam" told reporters when they arrived that he had skinned his nose, continued to go out skating with a small bit of court plaster over...
Seldom do proceedings of the House of Lords interest Italians but last week they were cheering for young Lord de Clifford when he was tried by his peers for a felony. Reason: de Clifford is a disciple of British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, the only foreign Fascist whose portrait hangs in Rome at Fascist Party headquarters. Like the good Fascist he is, Lord de Clifford bought himself some time ago an Italian supercharged Lancia in which to burn up the road between Belisha beacons. While doing so one night the Italian Lancia met a British Frazer-Nash head...