Editing Hoare–Laval Pact (section)

{{Short description|1935 proposed treaty}}
The '''Hoare–Laval Pact''' was an initially [[Secret treaty|secret pact]] made in December of 1935 between French Foreign Minister [[Pierre Laval]] and British Foreign Secretary [[Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood|Sir Samuel Hoare]] for ending the [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War]]. Italy wanted to incorporate the independent nation of [[Ethiopian Empire|Abyssinia (Ethiopia)]] into its [[Italian Empire]] and also avenge the 1896 [[Battle of Adwa]], a humiliating defeat. The pact proposed to partition Abyssinia and thus partially achieve Italian dictator [[Benito Mussolini]]'s goal of making Abyssinia an Italian colony.

The proposal was met with outrage in Britain and France and never went into effect. Hoare and Laval were both sacked.