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...rest. Had "The Deal" gone through, Ethiopians would have been spared the horrors of wide spread poison gas warfare; Haile Selassie would have been reigning in Addis Ababa last week instead of being snubbed in London (see p. 20) ; and Britain, France and Italy might have resumed their "Stresa Front" against the ambitions of Adolf Hitler. Advantages of "The Deal" were so obvious, and it had been so entirely conceived by the best professional brains of Whitehall, that astonishment was the mood of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin when he discovered that British public opinion considered this a "Dirty Deal," betraying...
...Shall I also stress," continued the Foreign Minister, "how much I endeavored-and how much I rejoiced in so doing-to prepare for reconstitution of the pacific front of Stresa!"-i. e. the British-French-Italian decision, with Benito Mussolini as host at Stresa, to stand together against Germany's rupture at that time of the Treaty of Versailles by rearming in violation of its terms (TIME, April...
...called "Stresa Front" was cracked by Britain's opposition to Italy's war in Ethiopia. Cried M. Flandin amid fresh cheers: "I am seeking to bring about simultaneous suspension of hostilities in Ethiopia and of sanctions against Italy...
This sin against the Covenant of the League of Nations was committed with the nation which had always been the Covenant's leading champion, France. It was compounded at Stresa later, when Mussolini and Laval encountered no rebuke or opposition to their public sinning from James Ramsay MacDonald, then British Prime Minister, and Sir John Simon, then Foreign Secretary...
...Duce in Rome and been officially answered (TIME, July 1 & 8). Previously in Rome, Premier Laval had gone even farther, making with Premier Mussolini a pact in which France gave Italy a "free hand" against Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 14 & 21) in return for Italian support at the subsequent Stresa Conference on German rearmament. Thus last week Mr. Eden and Premier Laval knew they were asking Baron Aloisi to ask Premier Mussolini a repeat-question which could only infuriate the Dictator...