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Buryrostling. het increasingly apparent in recent weeks. It may serve as a warning that Mr. Chamberlain has only just saved himself from humiliation thanks to his refusal finally to be persuaded into accepting a token withdrawal of war-tired Italian troops as a "settlement" and justification for ratifying the Rome Pacts.

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"Begin life early. All these things belong to the public, and your business must always be to get out of the public as much

The British plan for the with-jas you can.”· drawal of "volunteers" from In the same spirit the legend- Spain, which sought to cut the ary Scot fills his fountain-pen main Spanish evil at the root, from the ink in post-office ink- has, after very deliberate pro-pots now that they contain some- crastination by General Franco, thing more liquid than the old been finally rejected by the Bur-curious and semi-solid matter. gos administration. That is not The other day it was recalled the way General Franco would how, until the "cheeseparing" of put it: nor, we imagine, is it the Mr. Gladstone, Ministers were interpretation which Mr. Neville entitled to take with them the Chamberlain or Lord Plymouth official silver ink-stand when they will willingly accept. The effect, went out of office. It

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weeks ago was hailed as the re- Harcourt, in one of his more in- ward of Lord Plymouth's pati-tractable moods, would be dis- ence in non-intervention com-covered sitting before an enor- mittee. The Burgos ácceptance of mous-cabinet-of diverse station- the Plan in principle is so com-ery saying "I have no ink, pens, pletely denied by vital challenges or paper." on points of detail, that to at- tempt to meet Franco's suggesRoads and Casualties tions would involve beginning in- terminable discussions all over again from the stage when the of roads, compiled annually by The international comparison British Plan was first submitted the British Road Federation and for consideration, more than a just issued for this year, points year ago. Any other view of the out that with a density of 13.7 situation created would be blind motor-vehicles to each mile of optimism.

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Not that any surprise need be ed of all the countries of which" occasioned. It has been feared account is taken. France comes all along that no troops would be next among European countries withdrawn from the insurgent in the number of motor-vehicles side until a rebel victory was cer- she must accommodate, but her tain, and Teruel and the Ebro extra road mileage gives her have shown General Franco very density to the mile of only 5.6. clearly that the Republicans are It is on the whole to Britain's still capable of hitting back and credit that in spite of compara-, hitting back hard. Signor Mus- tive congestion the death-rate solini's anxiety to see the Anglo- per 10,000 motor-vehicles is only Italian Agreement completed, is twenty-nine as against France's has always been conditioned by twenty-one, though both figures his firm determination to see the are grave and alarming. final victory for Franco in Spain. most dangerous country to motor Count Ciano has virtually ad-in would seem to be Italy. mitted that further assistance has three vehicles only to each She has been lent to Franco since mile of road, but her death-rate conclusion of the Agreement. If is sixty-one per 10,000 cars. any further factor inspired the Britain the number of pedestrians In form of Franco's reply, it would killed and injured, though it is) not be difficult to hazard a guess an intolerably high figure, has at its nature. It must be obvious increased but little in the last ten that if the British Plan goes, the years. The number of pedal- Anglo-Italian Pact goes with it. cyclists killed in that time, how- Germany's benevolent comment ever, has risen from 691 to 1,416 on the Chamberlain-Mussolini ac-and the injured from 27,680 to cord, at the time of its conclu- 67,748. The figures would seem sion, has never been conceded to afford strong backing for the even its face value, and the Ministry of Transport's plans for Istrength of German influence at the segregation of traffic.