The Papers of Leopold Amery

Correspondence and papers on the crisis over sanctions being imposed on Italy by the League of Nations, following Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia]. Includes: copies of letters written by LSA to the press and to the Prime Minister [Stanley Baldwin] on the crisis; list of MPs and peers invited to attend a meeting on the subject, with copy of the resolution passed, calling on the Government not to support the imposition of sanctions; annotated article by LSA for the Daily Mail, on the Abyssinian crisis; extract from an interview with Benito Mussolini by Sir Arnold Wilson on the Italian attitude to the original Hoare-Laval proposals [by Sir Samuel Hoare, Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Templewood and Pierre Laval, French Foreign Minister]; summaries of speeches by LSA against sanctions.