The Archive · 1934

Confession of Remissness

Most members of the Council were Titulescu spoke. Baron Aloisi of Moly: gazed at the ceiling while M. Pierre Laval, the French Foreign Minister, picked his teeth. Mr. Anthony Eden, British Lord Privy Seal, examined his finger-nails while the" Rumanian Foreign Minister made his violent attack.

Continuing, M. Titulescu declared that, even if the Hungarian Government had not been brought in contact with Croatian exiles, It was a confession of remissness because its responsibility was involved. Referring to revisionism, he pointed out that the number of nations discontented with: their existing frontiers was 3 very: small minority of those who Ww. quietude and peace in the maintenance of the status quo, Hungary, he concluded, was the most active and most intense centre of the revisionist movement, 'Dr, Edouard Benes, the Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister, also addressed the meeting but his' speech was moderate as compared with that of M, Titulescu, Dr, Benes. opposed revisionism and appealed to the Council of the League of Nations to afford Yugoslavia satisfaction,

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