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Last week's excitement at the State Department, and the eagerness of Secretary Hull to feel that everything had been finally settled, sprang naturally from the embarrassment of Peace Lovers when it was at first thought that British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden would find himself reeking with the odor of oil when he rose in Geneva to carry the Italy-Ethiopia crisis onto a high moral plane. The fact that Promoter Rickett is British and at first said that part of his financial backing was British had made young Mr. Eden look out of character...
Wily Greek. League of Nations activity began to stir when British League of Nations Minister Anthony Eden motored from Geneva over to Aix-les-Bains in France for dinner with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. About 2 a. m. Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Dictator Mussolini's Chief Delegate to the League, also arrived at Aix-les-Bains and went to bed. At 9:30 next morning the hard, astute Fascist Baron breakfasted with comfortable, pipe-sucking Stanley Baldwin and they conferred for an hour before the minister wound up his holiday water-cure and returned to London...
...Atrocious Practices." Next in Geneva the Italian case against Ethiopia was opened before the Council by Baron Pompeo Aloisi with a harsh, heavily documented address, while Italian aides passed around among the statesmen pictures taken in Ethiopia. As Captain Anthony Eden and his entourage fingered them, a Briton snorted, "The most revolting exhibit ever produced!" Wrinkling his French nose, Premier Laval remarked, "Nice, aren't they...
Lion's Paws. When boyish Mr. Eden appeared, there was heard in his office the plaintive cry: "If Mussolini had paid Rickett, the man couldn't have served Italy better...
This was on the Eden side of the Foreign Office, the big bay window in which British Idealism is kept on view. On the Hoare side, where upper lips are kept stiff, there was silent, discreet, professional conviction that Sir Sidney Barton in Addis Ababa is anything but a fool, and that Empire progress has often been swiftest when the British Lion's right paw quite honestly did not know what the left paw was doing. In the City a most unusual rumor was current that the head of one of Britain's "Big Five" banks, normally...