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Turning point · The Road to War, 1931–1941
The Hoare–Laval Pact
Dec 1935 — In Paris, the British and French foreign ministers secretly offer Mussolini two-thirds of Abyssinia. The plan leaks; both men fall; the League’s two pillars stand exposed.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — Abyssinia: The League Dies in Africa in The Road to War, 1931–1941.
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