THE LEAGUE: Pussywillowing

Roly-poly Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff used Geneva for years as a soap box from which, with Jewish wit, he mocked the Great Powers for the hypocrisy of their peace diplomacy, noted that League of Nations proceedings often resemble fencing in the dark with pussywillows.

Today alphabetical rotation has made brilliant, moon-faced Comrade Litvinoff the League Council's President. Last week he and Benito Mussolini fenced with pussywillows.

The Dictator, normally harsh, direct and plain, deliberately engaged with President Litvinoff in an exchange of views on the Ethiopian issue so...

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