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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...
...Were merely bored as Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare rambled into an unconsidered speech on Ethiopia which infuriated Italian Premier Benito Mussolini and made impossible any achievement at Geneva last week by British Minister for League of Nations Affairs Captain Anthony Eden...
...Samuel, with or without malice toward Mr. Eden, accepted on behalf of His Majesty's 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...
...Forced Prime Minister Baldwin to admit, grudgingly but imperturbably, that he may have bumbled when he created for his swank protege Captain Anthony Eden the office of Minister for League of Nations Affairs at ?3,000 ($15,000) per year alongside Sir Samuel Hoare who is the regular Foreign Secretary at the regular...
...Ridiculed the Prime Minister's other protege Lord Eustace Percy, who is an unattached Minister Without Portfolio, also at ?3,000 per year, for resoundingly back-slapping Protege Eden. "Captain Eden," declared Lord Eustace Percy, "is the greatest diplomatic genius this country has produced for a generation...