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...Constitution (TIME, June 17). The reward was Sir Samuel's appointment as His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the star Cabinet portfolio. Last week a British Royal Air Force plane carried "Flying Sam" to Geneva where he at once dwarfed handsome young Captain Anthony Eden, His Majesty's Minister for League of Nations Affairs. All the world knew that if any voice could halt Dictator Benito Mussolini's prospective war of African conquest, that voice was Great Britain's? the calm, chilling voice of Sir Samuel Hoare...
Back again to Geneva hurried France's Laval, conferred first with Italy's Aloisi, then closeted himself with Britain's Anthony Eden...
...delegates began a melodramatic routine of jumping up and marching out of the League Council chamber whenever Ethiopian delegates arose to speak. This move backfired, won extra courtesy from other Great Power statesmen for dusky Ethiopian Chief Delegate Bedjirond Tecla Hawariate. Once when Mr. Hawariate, Premier Laval and Captain Eden had to enter the same door, such a contest of bows began that it seemed none would get in. Finally the Ethiopian entered first, next the Briton, last the Frenchman...
Benito for Business. The fireworks being over, the League Council, as it always does, appointed a commission. Chairmanned by Salvador de Madariaga, oldtime Spanish idealist and Leaguophile, the Commissioners were Premier Laval, Captain Eden, Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck and Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Rushtu Aras. With a show of bravado Fascist Aloisi said that "Italy reserves absolute freedom of action!" But Geneva was heavy with rumors that Dictator Mussolini had privately intimated that he was now ready to do business with the Peacemen, if they can and will do business...
...this year. Italian forces were moving up last week in the belief that their zero hour will come early in October. Any time before then Il Duce is open to a fresh and better offer from Geneva than the one made at Paris by Premier Laval and Captain Eden which he turned down (TIME, Aug. 26), and the one before that made by Eden in Rome which raised such a rumpus when the House of Commons learned that this handsome young man had proposed prematurely to barter away part of the British Empire (TIME, July...