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...Rome no maxim is more rigid than the Fascist saw: "One cannot ask Il Duce the same thing twice...
Since British statesmen are well known to doubt almost everything they read in the papers,* Captain Eden's curiosity would have been natural, had he not recently popped the question to Il 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...
Aloisi was put on the wire. Il Duce heard him out. "Laval clearly agreed to Italian predominance in Ethiopia," the Dictator finally said. "If Laval now says that I have gone too far, I am ready and willing to meet Laval again and talk it over once more...
There the Big Three of last week, grim Aloisi, affable Laval and Britain's young Captain Anthony Eden, who vividly remembers the talking-to he recently received in Rome from Il Duce, sat around devising what the League calls a "formula." Every few hours Baron Aloisi would read the latest text by long distance telephone to Premier Mussolini and the Dictator would snort, ''Unacceptable...
...Government a suggestion thrown out in debate by Liberal Leader Sir Herbert Samuel that Britain and France join in guaranteeing Italian territory against aggression by Ethiopia. This cynical suggestion, and Sir Herbert frankly admitted his cynicism, was taken up by Sir Samuel as a means of calling Il Duce's bluff that Italy is proceeding in ''self-defense" against Ethiopia instead of in pure aggression. After calling Sir Herbert's suggestion "most interesting" and promising to transmit it to Geneva, Sir Samuel added, with what seemed to Italians mealy-mouthed British hypocrisy: "We are dealing with...