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The most crucial job in the Empire was briskly shouldered last week by the new First Lord of the British Admiralty, Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare. Few months ago he was Foreign Secretary, and in those now distant times it was still possible for Great Britain to have made a friendly peace with Benito MussoliniĀsuch a peace as the Hoare-Laval Deal for which British public opinion was not yet ready when Sir Samuel signed it in Paris (TIME, Dec. 16 & 23). Last week not peace but a capitulation to II...
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