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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 sents but of votes throughout the country, to the French Popular Front, which, like its namesake in Phone 27778-9. Stubbs Rd. Spain, is composed of Communists, Socialists and

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Radicals.

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 clous massacres of September

1793 when the Faris mob murder FRANCE has even in more recent times of political stress been ed innocent prisoners and when the scene of crimes worse than the streets of Paris ran. red with those which have been committed

By

blood. They have forgotten that in Spain. In the Commune of Harold G.

There is considerable sign-one year later within the space of 1871 churches were burned down ficance in the report that Britain Ave 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 ranean from Malta to Cyprus, it the highest character and unble being held in some quarters that mished fewere guillotined on

the Place de la Concorde.

Nobody, therefore, can say that

in a fresh fever of political agita- tion, when party opposes party,

similar crimes may not be repeat- cd.

But it is from the Communists,

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History would repeat itself, and the little band'of Communists, the "Montagnards" of the Reign of Terror, would become supreme in a Rump Parliament. Then there would come the reign of the guille- tine and of the torturers, men of the bloodthirsty stamp of Couthon - and Fouquler-Tinvillo.

There is, moreover, the fear that such evil strife might be fatal to the political independence of the country. It is known that

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the other side of the Rhine- nation which is pledged to sup- which press Communism, and would not sit idle if the flames of civil war were to spread along Its very borders.

The day might como when Notre Dame would be sacked and its trensures disappear. And so the history of a possible priceless French crials can be imagined in Churches like La Trinite and St. Malta is now out-of-date and no

advance. The Socialists and Ra- Vincent de Paul might crash in longer safeguards the Mediter-

dicals will try to carry out the turmoil of smoke and flames, The great houses on the Avenue Foch ranean. Cyprus, on the other Apply the oil sunction than when

might be the scene of murder, hand, is considered to be better Addis Ababa collapsed. Who-who are now for the first time in HUNGER'S PINCH

ther sanctions would have been history 83 strong in the French Fopular Front policy, and will arson and pillage, and once more situated to protect the Suez Canal entrance, and, moreover, any more successful had the Chamber, that such violence can bring about financial crisis after unburied dead might lie in the financial crisis, while trade and streets of Paris while Communist possesses facilities for all types Japan been in the League is very The Socialists and the Radicals, Industry will suffer, and soon the mobs from the Red suburbs armed of aircraft. Without doubt, ono doubtful. The dependence of

with moderate programme, millions will be affected by hunger with machine-guns and explosives' of the reasons which caused the France on Italy-clearly re-

strictly within the law; may per-

wreaked their will. failure of the League in Ethio-vealed in the anomalous ap-1

to

There is another side to the pic- Róme to join in haps be allowed to hold the stage LACK of bread has always been pia was Britain's tardy recogni-peal

a cry in Paris which has ture. The French are more edu- 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, vated than. they were in the days Mediterranean had been dras-

they apparently could not traint, and one of their more vio-and the Communists, with their of-past-revolutions. Thore fa-z- 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 situation. Socialists and Radi- 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

Buch à them, from fear or from convic head in France. little use.

A well-known Ameri- make Mussolini's African adven-office at once, whether

ture a national crusade against thing be strictly constitutional or tion would desert to the Commun- can journal, commenting on the the League. What then does failure to make sanctions against this experience mean? Mani- Italy really effective, aaks whe-festly sanctions failed to stop

failed to apply affective 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- breaking Italy's power to stand out the use of force. Can it against Germany in Austria. under different circumstances? The latter fear was manifestly Probably not against any great power. Certainly statesmen, 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 risits 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 the Geneva forum as a means of which would still permit Italy to fight. Whether the sanctions showing up the essence of inter- 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 weather and geography. And understand the true nature of Geneva was defeated fur more peace and the peaceful thinking definitely when it refused to which is the surest peacemaking.

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thing for me?

Such organisations as Colonel de la Rocque's Croix de Feu, which now numbers nearly 2,000,000 die- ciplined and enthusiastic ad- herents, would not 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 corps of officers. though not taking an active part in politice, would not countenance the violent overthrow of the present Republican regime. PLAYING WITH FIRE FINALLY, there is that extra- ordinary elasticity and power of recovery of the French nation. There are many, indeed, who say that although, nobody knows Irla

"man who Can name, a Franco" may be just awaiting his time.

Bave

Nobody can be sure of what the next few months may bring forth -whether they will mean revolu- tion or recovery. But to live dangerously and then to expect some fresh and miraculous return to stability is simply playing with Bro.