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Meanwhile strong & healthy Benito Mussolini was having his go at Anthony Eden. The Dictator, no novice in the fine art of getting the jump on public opinion, caused announcements to be made while Captain Eden was his guest which provoked abroad such headlines as BRITISH AGREE TO LET Il DUCE RULE ETHIOPIA and REPORT PACT FOR PARTITION OF ETHIOPIA. Premier Mussolini had just raised his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano from Undersecretary to Minister for Press Relations and the Count proceeded to make good last week. Not until Captain Eden emerged from Italy did the World Press tune change...
That the Dictator's smart entourage had profited from rubbing ideas with Mr. Eden, appeared when Italian Undersecretary for Colonies Alessandro Lessona announced on behalf of Il Duce with a perfectly straight face: "We consider our mission in Ethiopia as sincerely and definitely to abolish slavery and to replace oppression by a harmonious regime of order. We shall give to Ethiopia the opportunity to participate in modern civilization...
...English statesman could scarcely have spoken more persuasively to Englishmen. As tired Captain Eden returned to London it was clear that he had settled nothing, proved nothing. "I am going to report to my colleagues," said he morosely before facing the House of Commons. Mussolini, it was understood in Whitehall, proposes that, since Ethiopia's admission to the League of Nations was conditional on her abolishing slavery, and since slavery still flourishes in Ethiopia, the thing to do is for the Great Powers to expel Ethiopia from the League and hand her over to Italy which would guarantee to free...
While this slick out was pondered by His Majesty's Government, an amazing indiscretion popped loose in London. From Mr. Eden or some member of his immediate entourage Universal Service claimed to have scooped the actual words of Il Duce to Britain's envoy at their private conference in the Palazzo Venezia...
...were Reformed Jews, in the vanguard of the movement in the U. S. They met in Pittsburgh, drew up a "Platform" as a guide for Reformed Judaism, put their views on Zionism in paragraph No. 5. Further, their Platform rejected old Jewish ideas of bodily resurrection, of Gehenna and Eden. Mosaic and rabbinical laws of diet, priestly purity and dress the Reformed rabbis found incompatible with modern life. They staked their faith on "the indwelling of God in man," declared that modern scientific discoveries are not antagonistic with Jewish doctrine, saluted Christianity and Islam as daughter religions of Judaism...