Word: french
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British Delegate Butler and French...
...were today fighting to "defend the very principle on which the League was founded," that they were indeed at war with the chief "author of European aggression"-Adolf Hitler. The Finns welcomed the moral support, but pressed for greater assurances of more material aid. In Moscow the British and French League speeches were described in the Soviet press as having "exceeded all previous limits of cynicism and hypocrisy...
...important, but not more so than the deep-seated hatred harbored by capitalist countries for the land of Communism. Moreover, with Germany, Italy and Japan out, the League has become more & more a unilateral organization headed by France and Britain and composed of neutrals dependent upon British and French good will. A many-sided League never did agree on any forceful action: a one-sided League last week...
This amounted to confirmation that the much-touted "Military Alliance" was simply a false front by which Herr Ribbentrop hoped to scare the British and French into making further concessions a la Munich...
Year ago in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, "spontaneous" demands for "Tunisia! Corsica! Djibouti!" all French protectorates, were vociferously raised. Last week Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda, lamented that the two outlets to Italy's mare nostrum, the Mediterranean, were "closed," suggested it would be nice for Italy if British-owned Gibraltar and British-protected Suez changed hands...