Word: stresa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ordinarily in April the delicate scent of almond blossoms wafts across Stresa's azure lake, agreeably perfuming the beauteous little Italian town. Last week Stresa's 2,000 inhabitants were outnumbered by Fascist detectives, police and militia protecting the lives of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his Foreign Minister Sir John Simon, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and his Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini, Duce del Fascismo e Capo del Governo who is his own Foreign Minister. All one could smell was fresh paint...
Brass Tacks. Either the Stresa Conference was going to induce Britain to stop vacillating and take a firm stand on Adolf Hitler and problems raised by his tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, March 25) or endless temporizing must continue. As Sir John Simon was told to his face in the House of Commons by an irate M. P. just before he and the Prime Minister left England last week, "We have heard where France, Italy, Germany, Russia and Poland stand but we don't know where our own country stands...
...British Delegation were sniped at in a manner definitely "not cricket" by hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. He suddenly took it on himself to say that the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister had no authority from Britain's Cabinet to make fresh commitments at Stresa last week or at Geneva this week when the League Council meets. Mr. Chamberlain hinted that Mr. MacDonald and Sir John could not be trusted not to exceed their authority and that he was therefore obliged to expose their real position. Next day they hotly retorted from Stresa that British...
...Wreck. This meant that European diplomacy could set off again on its scrap-of-paper strewn hunt for the pact to end pacts. With such proceedings, Dictator Mussolini has small sympathy, but he and French Premier Flandin preferred to wind up the Stresa Conference handsomely and save everything possible from the wreck...
...valets packed statesmanly baggage rumors vapored in Paris and London that "perhaps at Stresa teeth can be put into the League of Nations...