SANCTIONS: Something Silly

On the European diplomatic front of the Ethiopian war last week tension rose again toward the breaking point. Three brawling boasters could scarcely have vaunted themselves more ready to fight at the drop of a Sanction than did Britain, France and Italy in the suave and supple but exceedingly dangerous communiqués of their respective governments to the Press.

In Great Britain the most coarse and straight-forward threat of which silky-spoken members of His Majesty's Government appear to be capable was uttered when one of them said, off the record, "If Mussolini...

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