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Thus the League Council, which let Japan conquer Manchuria from China and failed to punish Germany for breaking the Treaty of Versailles on which the League Covenant itself is based, is asked by Italy this week: Why get excited about Ethiopia...
Cracking back, Emperor Power of Trinity galvanized Ethiopia with an order for "general mobilization...
Since membership in the League requires that the member state have a strong central government and eschew slavery, Il Duce's drift was that the League can save its face by dropping Ethiopia as unworthy of membership and commissioning Italy, who has no slaves and does possess a strong central government, to bring the backward Empire up to date. Only thing wrong with this Fascist argument on its face was that in 1923, when inexperienced Benito Mussolini had been Premier of Italy for only a few months, the Italian Delegation stood sponsor to Ethiopia and enabled that Empire...
Since it is doubtless too late for the Dictator to patch up that mistake in the public view, greater World interest focused on his other words last week at Bolzano: "Italy has a question to settle with Ethiopia. She does not have and does not wish to have questions with Great Britain. . . . The Fascist Government thinks that Italy's colonial question should have no reaction on the European situation, unless one wishes to run the risk of letting loose a new World War in order to prevent a great power like Italy from bringing order to a bad country...
Benito Mussolini stood last week four-square on a package of exploding firecrackers. Zing!-the British Navy blanketed the Suez Canal. Zip!-Italian submarines prepared to counter with "maneuvers" across Britain's communication lines in the Mediterranean. Pow!-Ethiopia's Emperor tried to hand over the better half of his realm to Standard Oil (see p. 23). And bang! bang! bang!-Italian guns fired live shells over Italian troops advancing in war games along the Austrian frontier, killing one trooper and wounding two others as they charged up a hill with the King and Mussolini looking...