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France's suave Joseph Paul-Boncour sat at one end of a long table, Britain's Anthony Eden at the other. Their lunch eon guests were the delegates of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands. Early last week this group of neutrals had gone to the dingy Hotel Richemond and into the bedroom of rawboned, learned Dr. Peter Munch, Foreign Minister of Denmark. To them Dr. Munch pointed out that the Sanctions question and the Rhineland occupation had a definite lesson. It was time for the small neutrals to stop being the witless tools of France...
...clock. At 4:45 p. m. Belaten Guetta Wolde Mariam Ayelen, Ethiopia's League delegate, accompanied by his secretary and Swiss legal adviser, arrived at the Palace, went directly to the Council room. In a few minutes in walked Italy's Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Anthony Eden and other members of the Council. Captain Eden gravely presided...
...Anthony Eden banged on the table : "I invite the delegate from Ethiopia to take his place at the Council table for discussion of this question...
...wants for Germany is today Europe's most momentous secret. In March the Realmleader sent German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland and a fine-sounding set of peace proposals to Britain (TIME, April 13, et ante). It occurred to Britain's earnest young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that perhaps the best way to find out what Adolf Hitler was thinking was to ask him. He wrote down a list of questions to which honest answers from Hitler would certainly be useful. He sent his manuscript to Pierre Etienne Flandin for additions, which the French Foreign Minister cheerfully supplied...
Last week the British Cabinet finished a two-week job of editing and polishing Mr. Eden's questions, after which the extraordinary document was dispatched to Britain's Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps to be handed to Adolf Hitler. All the good Conservative caution and breeding of which British gentlemen are capable had gone into toning down the original questions. In the whole document there was not a single question mark. Cabinet members had struck out all reference to Austria, Memel, Eupen and Malmedy, keeping those possible objectives of Adolf Hitler beyond the pale of polite conversation...