Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1935. On 7 June 1935, MacDonald resigned as British Prime Minister due to ailing health and was replaced by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party; the leadership change did not affect British foreign policy in any meaningful way. On October 3, 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia, and thus began the Abyssinia Crisis. Under strong pressure from a moralistic British public opinion, which was very much in favor of collective security, the British government took the lead in pressing the League of Nations for sanctions against Italy. The decision of the British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to take a strong line in
Baldwin Times Baldwin Times The Baldwin Times is a twice-weekly newspaper serving the Bay Minette area in the U.S. state of Alabama. It has a current circulation of about 1,000 as of 2018. Founded in 1890 as the "Daphne Times" the paper was relaunched five years later as the "Baldwin Times" after local lawyer Abner Smith bought the publication for seventy-five dollars at a foreclosure auction in 1894. Initial subscriptions numbered only around 250. The paper moved from Daphne to Bay Minette in 1901 where, suffering from illness, Smith sold it in 1905 to Ira Jones, but later bought back the paper,