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That the outcome of the Span- ish Civil War is muchly mixed up of with the eventual outcome prophecies of things in Europe is pretty evid- The gloomy
ent from the way that Franco American diplomats now in Washington from Europe and the has been endeavouring to bring conclusions to be drawn from to a finish the war in Spain, it suddenly improved German-Pol- doubtless being the hope of both ish relations lend added interest Mussolini and Hitler to so bring into effect stipulations which and importance to the conversa-
Rome they doubtless made with Franco with tions now proceeding in between Ir. Chamberlain and when they supplied him Signor Mussolini. In more than mercenary forces and arms for one sense it is Mr. Chamberlain's his purpose, regarding "anti- last chance of justifying the Gibraltar" points in Spain in the Munich appeasement. Such is the event of Franco coming out best. state of international politics to- That Britain is going to stand with Gibraltar Points" by Franco is of genuine success unless any understanding reached there hardly possible. Mr. Chamber- is a weaning away of Il Duce lain's going across to talk things over with Il Duce at the present from the Berlin-Rome' axis.
stage, therefore, indicates either Diplomacy' has reached such a stage of jugglery that diffidence that he is so sure of his strength about expressing views and as to be able to convince the ideas is probably wise. That Hit- others that he is able to say ler and Ribbentrop, Goebbels "No" to any moves in that direc and Goering, by their rapid tion or that he realises that the time has come, at any rate, for strangling of Austria and
still even sequent absorption, disappointed him to prove that Britannia a second Il Duce and cut him to the quick
it. is pretty generally accepted. That though it may mean
Peninsular War to prove Mussolini, and Hitler could ever work together really amicably is something difficult to conceive. Oliver Twist Clever as Mussolini is he has
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had to think out things entirely Unseats Ivanhoe |for himself against four of the
It appears from an inquiry in- most scheming type Germany has ever produced; and at that to the literary tastes of children, sort of game four heads are bet- which was carried out recently by the Bethnal Green public librar- ter than one.
Both Mussolini and Hitler were lies, that Dickens, with "Oliver similarly lacking in the requisite Twist," is the favourite classic of raw materials. Il Duce hoped to youthful Londoners. On the other rectify his immediate require-hand, Scott is not popular, and was not the first ments in this respect by absorp-"Ivanhoe" tion of Austria, or part thereof, choice of a single-boy or girl.
At first it seems a little unex- but he could not do this without disrupting Europe and antagonis-pected that Mr. Bumble, the Art- ing his newly-found associate. ful Dodger, and Bill Sykes, should He therefore went to Abyssinia. be preferred to Robin Hood, Rich- Both were in the same position ard Coeur-de-Lion, and Front-de- in regard to shortage of funds to Boeuf! and the mummery in Fa- permit of their getting from gin's kitchen to the thrills of other outside sources their raw Ashby-de-la-Zouche: but perhaps material requirements and both it is not so strange. For if one while able to arrange for a bar-may judge from the books that themselves received the most votes, from the of Richmal ter-system between
a sufficient "William" series could not arrange
to cover Crompton, and the adventures of volume with outsiders their purchases of the required "Biggles," the airman hero; raw materials. Mussolini as a re-related by Captain W. E. Johns, sult of Spain and Abyssinia has youth looks to-day for types and lowered his vitality and this was settings with which it is in con- his tact, or of which it has consider- appreciated by Hitler and
to able knowledge. It requires satellites; prompting them walk into the territory which realism to which it can, in some Benito thought was to be his degree, apply a touchstone.
It is obvious that Oliver adrift eventually, i.e. Austria. And hav-
very adroitly in London scores heavily, from ing previously worked up Benito into an anti-this point of view, over Ivanhoe. British attitude, was practically in Front-de-Boeuf's castle. Even assured that Britain would not Mr. Bumble, if he is now an an- and was always go in on Benito's side in the achronism, event of the latter making any something of a caricature, has at Indica- least his lineal descendants; while trouble about Austria. tions of the "rawness" felt by of Front-de-Boeuf there is no Il Duce over the Austrian deal more trace than of Villon's Lad- having been conveyed to Mr.ies of Yesterday.
This rather stern attitude Chamberlain likewise his desire for a rapprochement by his cessa- relaxed, however, in the case of propa-pure fantasy; for "Alice in Won- tion of his anti-British ganda in the Roman press, feel-derland" still holds its own or ers were extended by Britain is it that the nursery has first- and seemingly the deal was clos-hand knowledge that makes Won- ed by the passing over to Italy derland the most convincing set- of a matter of some twenty mil- ting of all?
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