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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since, M. Laval has hoped that it might be possible to pass off a Fascist conquest of Ethiopia at Geneva by giving it some other name than "war." It might, for example, be called a "colonial expedition." Early last week M. Laval suggested the advantages of this name to Sir George Clerk, but the British Ambassador reacted by freezing up. Without exactly saying so, Sir George intimated that the French may be the sort of people who would keep the League going and save Europe from unpleasant complications by letting Il Duce have his war under some sweeter name...
Lady Alice, should she ever thumb through Burke's Peerage, would find that her family makes vivid reading. Its motto is Amo ("I love"). Sir Walter, First Lord Scott of Buccleuch (pronounced Buck-clew), "carried on a predatory warfare against the English" and "was delivered up as a hostage upon an adjustment of feuds between the English and Scots...
Smith College women approved the discreet refusal of their Professor Frank Hankins at the Congress to become embroiled over what he called "a political policy concerning which people feel deeply." Sir Charles Close, who as the eugenists' British president should have presided, shyly let the Congress' German hosts run everything as they pleased. At the closing Congress banquet Manhattan's Dr. Campbell gave the toast: "To that great leader, Adolf Hitler...
...London neither the City nor Whitehall could believe that Sir Sidney Barton, the British Minister at Addis Ababa who has always been described as "extremely close to the Emperor," could have proved so ineffective as to have been ignorant that a concession of this magnitude was being negotiated under his nose. Nonetheless, Britain's Foreign Office reacted to the news from Ethiopia with every outward show of consternation. Neither Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare nor League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden could at first be reached, the sacrosanct British weekend having begun, but Foreign Office underlings at once realized...
...waters from the Blue Nile toward Ethiopian plains now dry but capable of becoming a second fruitful Egypt. The loss to British investors in the Sudan would be colossal, that to British prestige in Africa irretrievable. Last week sword-handy Britons of the more resolute school, such as General Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, brimmed with hostile advice. At the very least a British force padded with Egyptian and Indian troops ought to sneak up the Blue Nile and mount guard over Lake Tana. Also it would be well to make a naval demonstration...