Response to Ethiopia

May 15, 1936 - Henry Luce's March of Time film "Geneva" - critical of League

• Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, f. of League of Nations Union
  
• Selassie is defeated - Eng. prepares to rearm
  
• Brit censors deleted League poll in Eng., shots of British troopships in Med., shot of Mussolini with PM MacDonald
  
• MOT crew been arrested in London
  
• shown in 7000 theaters in U.S.
  

July 4 - League vote to discontinue sanctions - League is dead
England's faltering power is major cause of WWII (Dean Acheson)
Oct. 1936 - Rome-Berlin Axis official - dictators become stronger

• Anti-Comintern Pact signed by Ger. & Japan Nov. 25, 1936 - & Italy in 1937
  

FDR drifting, helpless according to Robert Dallek

• "two-fold neutrality" - arms embargo and moral embargo
  
• opp'd Glenn Martin, Robt Cruse sales to belligerents
  
• sought unity - proposed Buenos Aires conf for Dec. '36
  
• leaked to Arthur Krock idea of world peace conference
  
• Chatauqua sp. Aug. 14, 1936 - "I have seen war - I hate war"
  
• Mexico defiant - Borah investigated anticlerical Cardenas

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