LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Rupture

In pin-stripe trousers, modish short jacket and swank black felt hat, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, arrived in Geneva last week to practice further "Eden Diplomacy."

Its major premise thus far: "Mussolini is bluffing."

During the recent weeks of Italian victories in Ethiopia, incessant intimations have come from Rome to Europe's chancellories that if the Geneva Sanctions Committee, scheduled to meet last week, should show a disposition to tighten the Sanctions screw upon Italy, there would be unpleasant surprises. Mr. Eden, however, was expected by Italians to continue to behave...

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