His bulldog jaw unexpectedly stiff, Stanley Baldwin rose last week to make the strongest statement anybody had ever heard the Prime Minister deliver in the House of Commons:
"In view of the decision of the Italian Government to annex the whole of Ethiopia and the consequent menace to our posi-tion in Africa and the Near East, His Majesty's Government have made it clear in unmistakable terms that under no circumstances will interference by Italy with the existing regimes in Egypt and Palestine be permitted, and any attempt to do so will be considered...
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