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 was defeated, England prepared to rearm
  
• British censors deleted League poll in England, shots of British troop ships in Mediterranean, shot of Mussolini with PM MacDonald
  
• March of Time crew was arrested in London
  
• shown in 7000 theaters in U.S.
  

July 4, 1936 - League voted to discontinue sanctions; League was dead

• England's faltering power was major cause of WWII, according to Dean Acheson

Aug. 1, 1936 - Olympics opened in Berlin. Zeppelin Hindenburg flew overhead.

• Olympics newsreel and Hindenburg newsreel

Oct. 25, 1936 - Rome-Berlin Axis treaty of alliance signed, dictators became stronger

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

FDR drifting, helpless according to Robert Dallek

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

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