Fingering his carefully chosen tie, Europe's best groomed diplomat. Captain Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal of Britain, arose last week to address the League of Nations Council, assembled after four months recess.
At hand was the elaborate report of a special League Commission which, after weeks of slogging through the steamy jungle of the Gran Chaco, had dismally failed to settle the two-year-old war between Paraguay and Bolivia. To the outside world that failure had been just one more body blow to the League's reputation as a peacemaker. Not since it was...
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