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Cocktails & Sanctions. Ever since President Woodrow Wilson's ideals congealed into the League of Nations its best friends have rated it brittle. Fearing their cherished instrument would snap like an icicle if used against a Great Power, League statesmen have pussyfooted for 15 long years. They let Poland conquer a good third of Lithuania and seize its then capital Vilna, which Poland still holds. They let Japan master four rich Chinese provinces. No sanctions were imposed to stop bloodshed between Bolivia and Paraguay. Though the League's own charter or Covenant is part of the Treaty of Versailles...
...Byzantine eunuch is a symbol of strength compared with the Teachers' Oath Bill, in which nowhere can one find the slightest penalty provided for its violation. Evidently the statesmen of Massachusetts believe that the wish is the father to the thought, and that once the virtue of patriotism has been given the force of legality, it will become a part of the temperament of the teachers of the Commonwealth...
Thus doubly bullied by the world's most powerful fleet and most plausible statesmen, Big Bully Benito Mussolini raged in Rome: "We find it monstrous that the nation which dominates the world refuses us a small bit of land under the African sun! Many times I have given Britain assurance that her interests in Ethiopia would be scrupulously respected. Her attitude, I repeat, is monstrous! The real reasons why Britain so strongly opposes Italy she does not mention...
...London correspondents called "strange" an abrupt announcement by His Majesty's Government giving the "violence" of anti-British articles in Italian newspapers as their reason for flinging a vast display of naval might into the Mediterranean. Never before has the Power of the Press been thus saluted by British statesmen. Numerous British newsorgans last week were calling Premier Mussolini a maniac and London's Sunday Referee published an article hopefully suggesting that Italians will rise under Crown Prince Umberto and Air Marshal Balbo in a "revolt against the Dictator." Neutrals observed that, if the British "reason" is valid, Adolf Hitler...
Since Dr. Schuschnigg has been kept in power solely by the support of Italy, France and Britain, the story seemed plausible to such Austrians as managed to read it before police snatched all copies of Dr. Benes' paper off Vienna newsstands. For nearly three years Austrian statesmen have been so sure that Austrians would go Nazi if permitted to vote that the Austrian Government has suppressed all democratic suffrage, constituted what pious Chancellor Schuschnigg likes to think of as a Christian Dictatorship...