HOARE-LAVAL PACT


Meaning of HOARE-LAVAL PACT in English

(1935) Secret plan to offer Benito Mussolini most of Ethiopia (then called Abyssinia) in return for a truce in the Italo-Ethiopian War.

It was put together by British foreign secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and French premier Pierre Laval , who tried and failed to achieve a rapprochement between France and Italy. When news of the plan leaked out, it drew immediate and widespread denunciation.

Britannica English dictionary.      Английский словарь Британика.