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Still as keen and canny as he was in 1916, Sir Samuel Hoare now enjoys triple prestige. He made a great Air Minister (1922-24 & 1924-29), flying with Lady Hoare to inaugurate personally such new Empire air routes as the 5,566-mile span from London to New Delhi. More recently he has been the most prominent Secretary of State for India of this century, driving relentlessly through the House of Commons the longest bill it ever passed, and thus giving 350,000,000 Indians a new Constitution (TIME, June 17). The reward was Sir Samuel's appointment...
Dexterous Auvergnat. This intrusion by Ethiopia with a plea for practical horse-trading went unnoticed by the world Press as editors ordered out their biggest headlines for the clash of British and Italian wills crystallized by Sir Samuel Hoare. He himself stepped to a Geneva microphone next night and surprisingly cried: "Let the air carry to Italy these words?that whatever bitter things may be said, they are the words of a real friend! . . . A settlement must be sought that will do justice alike to Ethiopia's national rights and Italy's claims for expansion...
...which last week seemed about to recommend that Italy receive the sort of control over Ethiopia now held by Britain over the nominally "free and independent" Kingdom of Irak. Geneva realists, aware that the British National Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin faces a general election before long, considered Sir Samuel's speech in the nature of an electioneering harangue to British voters, 11,000,000 of whom have just signed a highly idealistic "peace ballot." French voters also must be harangued, and soon that olive-skinned Auvergnat, dexterous Premier Pierre Laval, mounted the Assembly rostrum. Eight minutes later, when...
...strategic French railway penetrating the heart of Ethiopia. Signor Mussolini also received from M. Laval a "free hand" with respect to the dusky Empire (TIME, Jan. 21). In Paris the great passage in Premier Laval's speech last week was considered that in which he adroitly inferred that Sir Samuel Hoare had, by implication, promised British support to France should Germany attack her or attempt to seize Austria. Cried the Frenchman with enthusiasm while the Briton looked faintly uncomfortable: "In an address elevated in its thought, where was found anew the liberal tradition of England and England's sense...
Triumphant to London. Morning after Sir Samuel Hoare's maiden League speech, New York Times Correspondent Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. cabled impartially from London: "If the free newspapers of this country were controlled and edited by a dictatorship they could hardly have been more unanimous in their approval." Everyone agreed that the new Foreign Secretary had struck exactly the right note? the British note. "Without doubt," pontificated the London Times, "he has succeeded in expressing the views not only of the government but of the country as a whole...