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win the day for him. But as shown the other methods are be- ing tried. France has not prepar- ed to be brow-beaten so easily.
Ever since, the Munich settle- ment questions have been raised SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.as to how any system of inclu- sive, multilateral trade could con- tinue to live side by side with the exclusive, bilateral system practiced by the totalitarian states. With the anticipated spread of German power Central and Eastern Europe half a dozen nations in that area will trade with other countries. find it increasingly difficult to
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The Reich's barter plan com- pels other countries which trade with her to centre on furnishing what Germany wants and to take in exchange what Germany wants to export. There is no freedom for the normal triangu- lar trade, to sell to Germany and buy from a third country to which Germany might in turn sell. It is as if the grocer and the shoemaker had to exchange goods instead of each buying his supplies where he could find the most suitable at the best price. The system is virtually. a denial of the basic principles of trade. It abandons most of the advan- tages of specialisation, and divi- sion of labour.
Any fundamental appeasement must find a way by which this totalitarian economic world, now extended and strengthened, can live peaceably with the de-
trade mocratic
world. Yet there are direct frictions be- tween the two systems which should be faced, if they are to be removed. The totalitarian system tends to force every state which comes within its trade orbit to
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Footlighting War
THE NEXT STEP?
Mussolini has taken his anti- French campaign a stage further by announcing the denunciation of the Anglo-Italian Agreement of 1935, using as an excuse the fact that, although France had regiment its own internal eco- carried out her side of the bar-nomy. On the other hand the gain, there had never been
freer trade system inevitably af- fects those who try to be self- exchange of ratifications..
sustained. Here is the area where Il Duce's tactics, however, will the stress between democracy deceive few. They represent pal- and dictatorship passes from pably the Fascist version of the ideals to interests, from words to acts. Here indeed is the test of methods employed by the Nazis
appeasement. in carrying out their designs on | Austria and Czechoslovakia. Cries of "Tunisia and Corsica” which have become an inspired Italian habit, are no doubt part of the propaganda which Mussolini has
Shakespeare has not been manufactured in the last few without his comment on the re- months. Since the conquest of cent international crisis. At the Abyssinia, Italian prestige in Me-very moment when the European diterranean Africa has risen situation wore its most imme- high. The first taste of success diately menacing hue, two of his has apparently whetted Il Duce's plays dealing with war were pre- ambition. Hitler's triumphs in sented in London theatres. They Central Europe have given it a were very different plays, they keener edge. What his comrade were produced in different cir- of the axis has done nearer cumstances; and they met with home, Il Duce hopes to emulate different receptions. in North Africa. An Italian Em- "Henry V", which with mag- pire stretching along the south nificent rhetoric deals with war Mediterranean littoral would be under the aspect of romantic at once the reply and the parallel pageantry, was put on at Drury to the Nazi hegemony on the Lane, and employed all the scenic Continent.
and histrionic splen- The French Protectorate of dours of one of the greatest Tunisia has a population of 3,- stages in the world; “Troïlüs ́ and 000,000 which is mainly Moslem. Cressida," on the other hand, There are in addition 200,000 (which: expresses an utter disillu- Frenchmen and an equal number|sionment with the horror and of Italians. But while the Tun-futility of war, was presented isians have adapted themselves with scarcely any scenery at all to the ways of their rulers and in a theatre of considerably less have prospered by the contact, fame than Drury Lane. there have recently been occa- "Troilus and Cressida” has has attempted to wreck this un-mouths sions when Italian propaganda lines that are familiar` in men's as house-hold words-- derstanding. On his visit to Libya lines like: "One touch of nature ast year Mussolini posed as the makes the whole world kin." champion of Islam against its But in spite of this, it is a play European "oppressors." II Duce's whose popular appeal is normally latest move is an attempt to en-far less than that of "Henry V". force that claim. Profiting by the Yet on this occasion it was "Troi- internal disorders in France and lus" that had the 'more prosper- the economic distress there, he ous run, perhaps an illuminating | began = hoping✨ perhaps that a commentary on the attitudë mere display of truculence would ordinary people toward wär.
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