See Also: Hoare-Laval Pact(encyclopedia)
Hoare, Sir Samuel (John Gurney), 2nd Baronet(encyclopedia)
Laval(encyclopedia)
Laval(tourism)
Laval car rental(tourism)
Laval, Pierre(encyclopedia)
Laval flights(tourism)
Laval (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Laval University(encyclopedia)
Laval doctors(health)

Hoare-Laval Pact (sh)




(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.