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...trimotored ship down at last near Dovia di Predappio, his birthplace in the Romagna, Il Duce tossed his flying helmet to a mechanic, drove off to concentrate at his country home on what moves he will make this week on Europe's chessboard when he opens the Stresa Conference...
...Stalin. So was French Premier Flandin. So was Mussolini. Any virility, any decisiveness which young Captain Eden has injected into British foreign policy oozed away as his heart faltered and Sir John Simon prepared to represent the Empire at Stresa in his usual "great lawyer" fashion, temporizing and indecisive...
...Mediate?" The Stresa Conference was called to enable Britain, France and Italy to take common action in the face of 1) German rearmament, and 2) the refusal of Germany and Poland to enter military pacts for punishment of armed aggression, particularly the Eastern Locarno Pact. In London this week Sir John and Prime Minister MacDonald, who decided to go to Stresa too, seemed to have no policy except a vague notion that Britain should try to ''mediate...
...three having met at Stresa, with Russia standing in the doorway hoping for a belated invitation, Great Britain commits her historical crime of refusing to take drastic steps. Her government, headed by doddering Ramsay MacDonald, shaking on its last legs at home, dares not do anything definite...
...present opportunity at Stresa, probably Europe's long chance for peace, is allowed to lapse through the maddening dalliance of British statesmen, Great Britain must assume moral responsibility for the next great war. It is a responsibility which a confused world shifted from her to Germany in 1918. The spectacle of Hitler waving at Stalin with an olive branch in his hand and a machine-gun up his sleeve, while Great Britain politely looks the other way, is proving to be no sedative for a Europe suffering from its worst case of jitters since...