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Judicial Jules Sauerwein of Paris-Soir, dean of French foreign affairs editors, observed: "There is only one way to avoid war and that is for the Ethiopian Emperor to give Italy adequate satisfaction. Any other method will end in a breach between Italy and the League and in profound disturbance of France's entire policy in Central Europe. If Britain should invoke international principles, we shall be able to reply that she herself sells them cheaply when it is a question of modifying, by her sole decision, the entire naval status of the Reich...
...Everywhere confusion and disorder; everywhere haste, and everywhere determination to occupy the rich lands of the Ethiopian plateau-without fighting if possible, but with war if the Ethiopians resist...
...After the Ualual incident [a border clash between Italian and Ethiopian troops last year] the Ethiopian wounded were tended by British doctors," cried Il Giornale d'Italia. "Italy has no objection to this humanitarian service but we inquire how British doctors happened to be on the scene...
...British Hypocrisy!" shrieked Il Messaggero. "Great Britain has promised a subsidy to the Emperor of Ethiopia to give the Ethiopian troops regular pay." In Rome the Dictator's press office told Italian reporters that "the natives of Ethiopia are so excited that now nothing can stop them. They think they have English support...
...enraging Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini, the Prime Minister declared: "Dictators cannot gauge the currents of public opinion because public opinion and a dictatorship are self-contradictory. . . . You saw how quickly a dictatorship could move in the development of the German air force and in the swiftness with which the Ethiopian situation has arisen [see p. 16]. . . . Things like these make it more necessary that there should be stability. . . . Our stability is necessary to the world! . . . Let that be a reason for seeing that the National Government is returned to power [at the coming election], perhaps with a reduced majority...