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and pillage have been the first- fruits of the triumph in Spain of the Popular Front or Communist Bloc.

Everybody here in Paris to-day |is asking whether France is doomed to travel by the same bloodstained path and whether here, too, the sum- mer skies are to be illumined by the flames from burning buildings..

In France, the birthplace of revolutions, the elections which have just taken place have given an absolute majority, not only of scats but of voies throughout the country, to the French Popular Front, which, like its namesake in Stubbs Rd. Spain, is composed of Communists, Socialists and

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MEDITERRANEAN SAFEGUARDS

There are those who are saying, "The dis- orders may be occurring in Spain, but such ex- cesses are impossible in France.”

They have overlooked the atro- CIVIL STRIFE cious Bingan Cres of September 1793 when the Paris mob murder-

of

FRANCE has even in more recent

times of political stress been

1871 churches were burned down.

ed innocent prisoners and when the scene of crimes worse than the streets of Paris ran red with those which have been committed blood. They have forgotten that in Spain. In the Commune. of There is considerable signi- one year later within the spaes ficance in the report that Britain five weeks 1,367 men and women, and hostages were taken out and is considering the transfer of most of them innocent of any po- shot. her naval base in the Mediter-litical crime--men and women of Nahody, therefore, call say that ranean from Malta to Cyprus, it/the highest character and 'unble in a fresh fover of political agítá-

mished life were guillotined on the Place de la Concorde.

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By

Harold G.

Cardozo,

History would repeat itself, and the little band of Communists, the "Montagnarda" of the Reign of Terror, would become supreme in

Rump Parliament. Then there would come the reign of the guillo- tine, and of the torturers, men of the bloodthirsty stamp of Couthon and Fouquler-Tlaville.

The day might come when, Notre Dame would be sacked and its treasures dlaappear.

And so the history of a possible priceless. tion, when party opposes party, being held in some quarters that

similar crimes may not be repeat- French crisis can be imagined in Churches like La Trinite and St. advance. The Socialists and Ra- Vincent de Paul might crash in t Malta is now out-of-date and no

dients will try to carry out the turmoil of smoke and flames. The longer safeguards the Mediter-|

But it is from the Communists,

grent houses on the Avenue Foch might be the scene of murder, ranean. Cyprus, on the other apply the oil sanction, than when

Addis Ababa collapsed. Whewho are now for the first time in HUNGER'S PINCH hand, is considered to be better

ther sanctions would have been history 833 strong in the French Popular Front polley, and will arson and pilluge, and once more situated to protect the Suezi

any more successful had the Chamber, that such violence can bring about flanncial crisis witen unburied dead might lie in the financial crisis, while trade and streets of Paris while Communist Canal entrance, and, moreover, United States, Germany and be feared.

The Socialists and the Radienia, Industry will suffer, and soon the mobs from the Red suburbs armed & Co., Ltd. treat. Wits tout types Japan been in the League is very

of aircraft. Without doubt, une doubtful. The dependence of with

a moderate programme, millions will be affected by hunger with machine-guns and explosives of the reasons which caused the France

wreaked, their will. on Italy-clearly re-

strictly within the law, may per- and want.

There is another side to the pic- failure of the League in Ethio-vealed in the anomalous ap

Rome

to join in haps be allowed to hold the stage LACK of bread has always been

a cry in Paris which has ture. The French are more edu- pin was Britain's tardy recogni-peal to tion that her control-of-the pressure against Germany over at first. And yet the Communists

the Rhineland-was such that are already chafing at such res raised barricades in the streets, cated than they were in the days Mediterranean had been dras-

not traint, and one of their more vio and the Communists, with their of past revolutions, Thero is a they apparently could tically weakened by the develop-tolerate successful sanctions lent leaders, not a worker but a experts from Moscow, would not link between the ex-Service men, ment of the aeroplane and new against Italy. The sanctions writer, M. Vaillant-Couturier, is be slow to take advantage of such few of whom are revolutionaries united in the Intention to fight if naval weapons which rendered they did apply only irritated the clamouring for immediate action a situation. Socialists and Radl- and the majority of whom are naval bases, especially Malta, of Italian people and helped to and for the Popular Front to take cals would be awamped. Many of Bolshevism should ever show its

a them, from fear or from convic head in France. little use. A well-known Ameri- make Mussolini's African adven-offies at once. whether such

ture a national crusade against thing be strictly constitutional or tion would desert to the Commun- CA journal, commenting on the the Lengue. What then does

ist ranks failure to make sanctions against this experience mean? Mani- Italy really effective, asks whe-festly sanctions failed to stop

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There is, moreover, the fear that such civil strife might be fatal to

the political independence of the country. It is known that s

the other side of the Rhine nation which is pledged to press Communiam," and which would not sit idle if the flames of civil war were to spread along its very borders.

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ther it was more fear of injury. Mussolini. Or rather the nations SIDE GLANCES By George Clark powerful and united nation lles on by Italy or fear of upsetting a failed to apply effective sane- delicate balance of power in tions, dared not drive economic Europe either by throwing Mus-pressure to the point of military sanctions. Clearly peace could solini into Hitler's arms or by not in this case be enforced with- Can it breaking Italy's power to stand out the use of force. against Germany in Austria, under different circumstances? | The latter fear was manifestly Probably not against any great]

Certainly statesmen, power. dominant in France if not in

charged with responsibility for

England. It lay behind the immediate action, are not likely Hoare-Laval plan. And from to put much faith in sanctions The beginning it lay behind the until the nations have recogniz reluctance to apply measures ed more clearly that the risks of which would have really stopped anarchy are greater than the risks of collective security. The Italy. It probably accounts for

next step for statesmen, who the failure to close the Suez must deal with things as they Canal which would have cut appear to be, not as they would Mussolini's power in two, It like them to be, will be some less was plainly the reason for ap- pretentious method than Article plying only those sanctions 16-continued development of which would still permit Italy the Geneva forum as a means of showing up the essence of inter- to fight. Whether the sanctions national disputes and adjusting which were applied were weak-them; working through active. ening Italy so that she could not application of Article 19 for the have carried on a second year's removal of injustices that cause campaign is a question Haile war; or possibly general at- Selassie's flight makes academic,tempts to prevent rather than Apparently, says the authority penalize war by putting embar- goes on all belligerents. For quoted, the League powers were others the next step might well counting too much on Abyssinian be an undiscouraged effort to

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"Somehow, I get a laugh out of the doc's suggestion. He said a trip out to the Grand Canyon would be the best thing for me,"

Such organisations us Colonel de la Rocque's Croix do Feu, which |now numbers nearly 2,000,000 dis- ciplined and enthusiastic ad- herents, would hot accept red re- volution and the suppression of constitutional legality without joining Issue with its bitterest opponents, the Communists. There, is the French Army, whose corpa - of officers. though not taking an active part in politics, would not countenance the violent overthrow of the present Republican regime. PLAYING WITH FIRE

FINALLY, there is that

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ordinary elasticity and power

of recovery of the French nation. There are many, Indoed, who say that although nobody knows his can save name, a "man who France" may be just awaiting his timo.

Nobody can be sure of what the next few months may bring forth --whether they will mean revolu- tion or

recovery. But to Ilve dangerously and then to expect Romo fresh and miraculous return to stability is simply playing with fire.