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Conceivably Czechoslovakia's interlocking alliances with France and Russia may lead these countries into a war with Germany into which Britain may ultimately be drawn. The chance is slim, but was not overlooked last week by Benito Mussolini, who issued a ringing warning at Genoa, after reviewing the Italian Navy. While affirming that Italy means to keep her new pact with Britain, and believing Britain will be equally loyal, Il Duce, referring with asperity to the Spanish Civil War, remarked that there Italy and France are "on opposite sides of the barricades." Proclaiming once more that if Italy and Germany had broken their axis that "would have opened the door to the triumph of Bolshevism in Europe," Premier Mussolini warned that if "the so-called great democracies" should take arms against Fascism then "the totalitarian states will immediately form a bloc and will march together to the end!"
Seemingly convinced that enough show of force will get what they want without a war, Sudeten German Nazis at week's end formed a Storm Troop militia, the f. s. or Freiwilliger Deutscher Schutzdienst (Volunteer German Protective Service), manifestoed: "These are no parade troops, but a fighting body on permanent duty. . . . We will march on to victory for our Racial Group!"