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34: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War Pt. 1 - Invasion

History of the Second World War

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The League of Nations and the Ethiopian Crisis

Great Britain wanted to view the peacekeeping function of the League of Nations as essentially conciliatory rather than coercive in nature. The British recognized that with the rejection of the covenant by the US Senate Britain clearly became a producer rather than a consumer of security under the League system. Louis John Smith in Great Britain in the Abyssinian Crisis 1935-1936 explains why. Sir Samuel Horr would take over as Foreign Secretary in June and he would walk directly into a minefield as tensions began to increase.

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