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Definitely not fit for public print, but locked up with the Geneva souvenirs of League Statesmen, is the Italian Government's official white paper on Ethiopian customs (TIME, Sept. 16). Copies reaching the U. S. last week satisfied curiosity as to what strong-stomached, peasant-born French Premier Pierre Laval was looking at when he remarked to Captain Eden, with a shrug, "Nice, aren't they...
...With British Minister for League of Nations Affairs Captain Anthony Eden cracking the whip, Geneva statesmen rushed onto paper a veritable literature of proposed sanctions and a wealth of erudite interpretations of the Covenant. These boiled down to the unprecedented conclusion, solemnly voiced in various ways, that no treaty the terms of which are in conflict with the Covenant can be regarded by League States as valid against...
...actually adopted the no-credit-to-Italy sanction, but this exciting news proved false. At week's end only Communist Russia had officially shut off extension of credits to Fascist Italy. Bursting with suspicion, Russia's Foreign Commissar Litvinoff glared at Geneva's assembled Capitalist statesmen, told them tartly that the Soviet Union will keep vigilant watch and at the first sign that they are chiseling on sanctions will herself resume trade with Italy...
...Eden that he began to get daily threats in impassioned Latin scrawls. (Sample: "Pig! Somebody ought to stick you!") Ultimately Scotland Yard operatives and Swiss detectives flung a veritable phalanx around the British Minister. He got safely away to London when Geneva finally shut up shop last week, League statesmen dispersing to the capitals in which their proposed sanctions are being considered...
...cannot close without expressing our admiration for those statesmen who show by their actions that their culture and morality are so far advanced that they can lead people to a strong organization of peace. In our opinion, they alone are truly qualified to act as the leaders of nations...