Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Those Vacant Seats While other delegates sat around the League of Nations council table, two chairs in the center (far side of the table) were vacant. They belong to the Italian envoys who left the room every time an Ethiopian made a speech. Negotiations, begun Sept. 4, are continuing, Premier Pierre Laval of France siding with Britain Sept. 13 for upholding the League covenant against war.
Those Vacant Seats While other delegates sat around the League of Nations council table, two chairs in the center (far side of the table) were vacant. They belong to the Italian envoys who left the room every time an Ethiopian made a speech. Negotiations, begun Sept. 4, are continuing, Premier Pierre Laval of France siding with Britain Sept. 13 for upholding the League covenant against war.
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Those Vacant Seats While other delegates sat around the League of Nations council table, two chairs in the center (far side of the table) were vacant. They belong to the Italian envoys who left the room every time an Ethiopian made a speech. Negotiations, begun Sept. 4, are continuing, Premier Pierre Laval of France siding with Britain Sept. 13 for upholding the League covenant against war.

Associated Press · [ca. September 1935]

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