FRANCE: Enslave England?

With French Fascist and middle class sympathy for Italy boiling up last week, Paris police had to jail some 700 Frenchmen overnight to prevent these wrathful war veterans and their friends from storming the British Embassy.

Around to the Foreign Office whizzed British Ambassador Sir George Clerk to demand some sort of crackdown upon the Paris independent moderate weekly Gringoire for headlining SHOULD ENGLAND BE REDUCED TO SLAVERY? Affirming, with copious historical instances of perfidy, that England should. Gringoire concluded: "British friendship is the most cruel gift the gods could give...

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