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The Hoare-Laval Plan: A Study in International Polities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Henderson B. Braddick
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The agreement between British Foreign Minister Sir Samuel Hoare and Pierre Laval, French Premier and Foreign Minister, in early December, 1935, was a major turning point in European international politics during the interwar period. It placed a premium on Fascist aggression in Ethiopia by proposing that Italy be given actual or de facto control over huge slices of the African country. Several volumes of memoirs published in the last few years throw new light on some aspects of the proposal itself and on the politics of Great Britain, Italy, and France toward the Italo-Ethiopian conflict, policies which at the height of the international crisis produced the Hoare-Laval Plan. In addition, the State Department documents, published and unpublished, are a mine of information on these matters.

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The Review of Politics , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , July 1962 , pp. 342 - 364
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1962

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