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Dorothy Thompson prophesied that Adolf Hitler would never rule Germany. Herbert Matthews called the Italian defeat at Guadalajara one of the decisive battles of history. Liddell Hart said Ethiopian mobile tactics would probably swamp Mussolini's invaders. Edgar Ansel Mowrer said that two years of the Chinese War would see Japan's morale crack. G. E. R. Gedye said the Czechoslovakian Army would fight before it would yield. And long ago, before modern methods of communication made foreign correspondence a large and thriving profession, the London Times asserted that, in capturing Atlanta, Sherman had merely lengthened his lines...
...system of world journalism. Few are the Parisian newsmen who cannot be bought, rare is the newspaper unwilling to be "subsidized." Not only does the French Government, which always maintains a secret fund, pass out generous pay checks to writers and editors, but foreign Governments also contribute. During the Ethiopian crisis of 1935 the Italian Government bought a few editorial pages. The way some prominent Paris newspapers have handled their German "news" recently suggests that slush funds from the Third Reich are also being passed around. In pot & kettle fashion, Leftist editors have cried that the Rightist press lived...
Censorship? To every British editor an Admiralty "D" notice is something he must obey or risk prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. Hangover from the World War, the "D" notice is often used on news of warship movements, and was prominently used in 1935 during the Ethiopian crisis, when newspapers were ordered not to print the departure of the British fleet to the Mediterranean. No "D" or any other kind of order, however, has ever been issued forbidding the report of a responsible Cabinet Minister's speech; in fact, such an order seemed a clear infraction of freedom...
...dramatic were French preparations in East Africa, where Italy also has some unfulfilled "aspirations." Artillery reinforcements were en route to Djibouti, French Somaliland. French authorities began recruiting natives to add to the 6,000 Somaliland defenders and to match Italy's concentration of 15,000 men on the Ethiopian and Eritrean borders...
...France he added that "If war is waged against Italy for any reason whatever it will see Germany and Italy side by side. . . . Nazi Germany knows what her fate would be if the international powers succeeded in defeating Italy. . . . Those who belittle the Italian Army were refuted by the Ethiopian campaign...