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with the application of "sanctions" in the attempted 'Ethiopian affair and by the sub- though pro- sequent withdrawal by the Front h, and, al- Populaire of the French Ambas- brt, popular sador from Rome. In these negotia- hored, it is tions there was actually a ques- ceive of a tion of completing the Laval Accords of 1935. France was per- are absurd; fectly prepared to be as agreeable ʼn demands? as possible to Italy, for French- ad sharing, men now see plainly that, so long I asks as Italy remains in the opposite #rectorate camp, Germany can with impunity seizing Austria, Czecho- nd a reduc- go on

and other countries cipation in Slovakia, the railway which stand in its way. It is not Red Sea to exaggerating to say that every- of Ethiopia; thing that has happened in Europe

such as a

-to the invariable advantage of of Djibouti, Germany-since 1936 is directly he status of related to the Franco-Italian feud now happily ended rly as num- and to the

the French Anglo-Italian quarrel. a, should be difications.

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In May, 1938, France and Eng- merely mat- land took at Geneva the first steps gaining, in- towards the recognition of the ," and call- Italian Empire. It was then that than reason- Signor Mussolini, on May 17, by rly cances- his startling anti-French speech at lomatic cir- Genoa, brought conversations to a Street, and close by affirming that France and of every Italy were on the opposite sides rted if Italy of the barrier in the Spanish civil r a revision war. Not until after the Munich at any rate meeting did France and England ti and Suez formally recognise Italian sover- been little eignty in Ethiopia. There were to an agree high hopes of reconciliation when hat they will France sent its Ambassador to or stamped- be shattered immediately by this y bargaining unexpected and continuous out- phere might burst of Italian animosity. ering French What will happen now? Italy ling Italian cannot afford to stand aside much emain ada- longer while Germany establishes its hegemony over central and eas- only a busi- tern Europe. But neither proposed, did France (and England) afford to and insults? give Germany a clear run by keep- is a diplo- ing Italy at arm's length. It is per- possible that fectly obvious that France will be d, and it will obliged, sooner or later, to pay a gnor Benito reasonable price to Italy in order as preferred to induce it, with Poland, Hun- in the back- gary, Rumania, and Yugoslavia, hat whatever to resist the German march east- ially is quite wards. It is, equally obvious that . It is whis. Italy will be obliged to seek a com- · killful Italian promise. It, too, is losing, both or Mussolini materially and morally, by the situation that for the bluff continuance of a off.

makes Germany supreme and un- gerous in the opposed. Even to those who are urope, though not anti-German it should be plain rto shown no that it is necessary to set bounds up its ally, to Germany's ambitions and that is incapable of setting have ranged Europe

behind the such bounds while France and Italy erranean. are in antagonism. The greatest In quarrel is harm has already been done. Let le in that in us trust that, before it is too late, Biano and the the Latin sisters shall realise how faires began Germany alone profits by their for the elimi- sulkiness and will "kiss and make caused by the it up."

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