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warn against a' challenge to the democracies and the necessity of revealing his wholehearted en-. dorsement of the alliance with Germany signed yesterday. His speeches in the last few days. have contained an odd mixture of Cellicosity and expressions of peaceful ambitions: Such assur-

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proofs" of their devotion to "peace and collaboration," but the self-conferred certificate would hardly be witnessed by Bohemia and Albania,

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ANGLO-SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS

A great deal of good has de- veloped from Friday's Commons debate for there is no making the

The other day Mussolini said hat in Italy they would not be starting to build an Exhibition for 1942 if they thought of "set- ing a match to a fire" or "hatch- ng evil designs of aggression:”

'If we have dared to begin this work, and if we continue it with alacrity, that should be considered a promising sign that we do not intend to at- tack anyone and that we wish instead to get on with our .work.

An admirable sentiment, and the

to realise

new spirit of Britain's approach general world desires nothing to the policy of alliance with Rus- better than to witness its accom- sia. Past dilatoriness has mere- plishment. The final statement ly served to arouse fresh sus that the great Roman arch which picions about the consistency of is to dominate the Exhibition the Government's policy. There is no reason to expect any dis-will represent "a symbol "of the

human will strained play of major weakness, but the "peace" is however hard to effects of Mr. Chamberlain's former policy and of the signs of swallow, but if the will to realise

peace does not seem to have been. half-heartedness since then have violently strained in Rome of gone deep, and especially over-late there is no reason why Mus- seas, and in American journalistic solini, if he chooses, should not quarters, the tendency to be scep-strain it from now on. tical feeds on any seeming op- portunity.

There are other signs which, whether without cause or not,

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arouse disquietude. When Mr. Harlan County Chamberlain was asked recent-

has been

ly whether the Government had No further news decided to recognise what had forthcoming from Harlan County, been done in Albania he replied, Kentucky, since Federal troops were turned out against. "No, not decided," as though the here

is to proposal might condeivably be striking miners. This

the be expected, perhaps, for under discussion. Then "Times" Rome correspondent, where else in free countries does after saying that Lord Perth had such terrorism prevail. No one delivered a message to the Italian intending to write or talk about Government added that

this region is allowed to enter;

no-

it seems likely that the Am-they are driven out under threats bassador may have made of death..

it plain that Great Britain, bas-

ing her position vis-a-vis Italy According to the La Follette on last year's Agreement, is Civil Liberties committee, 65 prepared to recognise the con-killings a year has been the em-- summation by the events of ployers' stint in the recent past.. the last fortnight of aly's "The government of Harlan privileged position in Albania, County is first owned by the coal which the British Government operators and then delegated to a has long acknowledged, on the high sheriff. At a profit for their netted understanding that Italy car-depredation which has ries out the terms of the him over $100,000 in three years, Agreement in the spirit as well this sheriff has deputised a staff as the letter.

of nearly 400 drunken hoodlums Were this report true it would whose killings of an evening. mean that the British Govern-would seem to be nothing but. ment had sacrificed Albania to the merry nightcap of a round of Italy in order to bribe Italy to whiskies, if they were not re- carry out her Agreement with us, munerated so handsomely for the although Italy was bound in hon-results by the coal operators' as- our to carry it out in any case sociation." and had already violated it by

In addition to the average, of the conquest of Albania. Such a bargaining and such a surrender 65 murders a year, every funda would be unthinkable but for mental right of the American what has happened before, But constitution is denied Harlan that such things can be seriously County citizens. There are in- stated, even if they should prove numerable instances of torture, to be untrue, shows what is still abuse, beatings and sadistic thought to be possible.

Mussolini's Peace

cruelty committed by the legally constituted authorities. Accord ing to George Seldes, "this ter rorism is unequalled in certain dictatorships. The evidence

is Mussolini appears to be torn similar to that from the Nazi con- between his instincts, which centration camp at Dachau."