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...British fleet. Last week the decisions reached fortnight ago at Nyon for naval co-operation by Britain and France to patrol the Mediterranean and destroy "pirate submarines"* (TIME, Sept. 20), were whipped into final shape at Geneva by the two foreign ministers chiefly concerned, Britain's Anthony Eden and France's Yvon Delbos. They used the Hotel des Bergues, where many of the League of Nations' most vital decisions are made in bedroom conferences, and before the week was out Britain, France and their satellite nations had agreed to hunt in the Mediterranean not only "pirate submarines...
...crying "Pirate!" at Il Duce, indeed they carefully sent to Rome copies of every project they adopted or discussed, even held up release of one of these to the press until it could be scanned by Premier Mussolini. To most observers it was obvious that British Foreign Secretary Eden, who hates and scorns Il Duce, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who wants to make friends with the Italian Dictator with whom he exchanges friendly personal letters (TIME, Aug. 9), were continuing to work at somewhat ludicrous cross purposes-except that the big job of starting Anglo-French naval cooperation...
...Unequal Treatment," In Mr. Eden's desire to spite Il Duce, the statesmen at Nyon last fortnight and at Geneva last week, invited Italy to undertake an anti-pirate patrol only in the Tyrrhenian Sea immediately adjoining Italy, while Britain and France are to patrol the Mediterranean proper. This joker invitation said in effect: "As you are the Pirate, we intend to destroy your pirate ships everywhere except in your back yard, and we invite you to destroy them there!" This seemed in London and Paris to be just about diplomacy's best joke of the year...
Pirates Won't Play? This move smacked of Mr. Chamberlain rather than of Mr. Eden. It amounted to scuttling almost the whole apparatus of Non- Intervention set up and maintained because Britain and France have insisted that this offered the best means of confining the war to Spain and minimizing its horrors (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936 et seq.). In newsorgans throughout the world the fact that Non-Intervention was being scuttled passed almost unnoticed amid the blaze of headlines about preparing to hunt pirates. Supposing, however, that the pirates should now simply decide not to play pirate any more...
...difference in the conduct of international conferences that are determined on action and the usual gingerly debates of the League of Nations. Sea-potent Britain was obviously going to call this Conference's tunes and she had sent to Geneva her hot-tempered, obstinate Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden. The British plan he brought had already been approved by France, and in short order this week the other conferees sat down and signed it. It provided that "neutral shipping lanes," in general synonymous with the present Mediterranean shipping lanes, be established and patrolled by the fleets of the nine...