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Events on Wednesday 18 December 1935 1
1935Hoare-Laval PactSecret plan to hand much of Ethiopia to ItalyBritish Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare and French Prime Minister Pierre Laval agreed on a plan that would have given Italy large parts of Ethiopia. The plan was leaked to the French press, and the public outcry forced Hoare to resign. The affair badly damaged the credibility of collective security.