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...diplomat who since 1932 has served Italy as chief delegate to the League of Nations, found himself rudely summoned from his Geneva apartment, plumped down in a small private dining room before a table full of Swiss food, and talked to, straight from the shoulder, by two nervous, irritable statesmen whose friendship he valued, whose ability he recognized, whose view point he could understand. It was a dreadful meal. The soup got cold, the champagne warm, the roast greasy. Every few minutes the three diners rose from the table to telephone Rome, London or Paris. Between times they kept looking...
Because the three statesmen had been through so many diplomatic campaigns together, Messrs. Eden and Laval wasted few words. Over the consomme, they talked hard & fast. Italy was determined to test her new army by a military campaign in Abyssinia. In normal times London and Paris would have no objection. As a matter of fact it would benefit both France and Britain to have Italy, instead of Japan, gain the upper hand in Africa's last independent empire. But these were not normal times. Abyssinia has been a member of the League of Nations in good standing since...
...statesmen looked sourly at their plates of striped ice cream. In their own rooms members of the League Council sat patiently waiting, paring their nails...
...British Cabinet's grill last week was Scot MacDonald's aristocratic social mentor, Air Minister the Marquess of Londonderry. Since breeding and habit cause British statesmen to disregard what they read in the papers. Lord Londonderry was severely blamed by most of his Cabinet colleagues last week for not informing them months ago that most of what "the newspapers" were printing about German air rearmament was true. Since Deutschland has now stolen an air march on England, the Cabinet last week could only urge Lord Londonderry to build British battle planes as fast as Britains...
...stayed in the women's prison of La Petite Roquette, awaiting trial. From time to time she was hauled out for questioning. Every one of her pleas for release was promptly refused. Last week French authorities decided that whatever Mme Stavisky knew was no longer dangerous for French statesmen still in power. She was released to see her children, to try and find some way of supporting them. Still she was not free. If & when the great Stavisky Case ever comes to trial, she will be a defendant...