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...King George for having erected this supposedly unbreakable barrier to war), vigorously jammed last week into British thinking machines his opinion that, since Germany in 1870 "dictated" to France and stripped her of two provinces, Germany in 1936 has no right to object to what Germans call the Diktat of Versailles, much less to the freely negotiated and not dictated Locarno Pact. "Once again we are asking ourselves," summed up Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., " 'Is any treaty made with Germany more than a scrap of paper?'. . . For Britain the only possible course is to follow the same...