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The Committee of Thirteen of the League of Nations is the same thing as the Council of the League of Nations without Italy. Last week the League delegates from Argentina, Australia, Chile, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Great Britain. Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain and Turkey hitched themselves up to a green baize battle between handsome, toothy Anthony Eden of Great Britain and bald, moose-tall Pierre Etienne Flandin of France.

On Britain's insistence the meeting was called to discuss once more Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, to demand either immediate cessation of hostilities or stiffer...

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