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...Battle of Oran last week terminated an era in Anglo-French relations: that of the Entente Cordiale. The Entente, born in 1904 and practically the only political monument to fun-loving, Francophile Edward VII, was only a general understanding primarily concerning African colonial matters. By 1907 it had blossomed into the Triple Entente of Great Britain, France and Russia, and bore its outstanding fruit in lining up the Allies against the central continental power of Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I. In the 20 years after 1919 the Entente was frequently strained: when Britain refused to consider Germany...
...they feel that British propaganda is not just another name for Empire publicity. It is a force dark, sinister, pervasive, ineluctable. Its strength lies in the fascination which the British upper classes exert upon the U. S. upper classes. As proof they submit a somewhat original interpretation of Anglo-American relations before 1917. During World War I, they claim, there was a deep cleavage in U. S. sentiment: "To upper-class America, the Allies truly represented civilization, for England's culture was their culture too." So the upper classes foisted World War I on the rest...
...Anglo-French imperialists, especially in the East, were last week far too soft, too effete, too gentle, too civilized, to be able even to realize the extent of the world revolution, to say nothing of stemming...
April 26. Britain conscription begins. Hitler in a Reichstag speech asks for Danzig, denounces Anglo-German Naval Treaty and Polish Ten-Year Treaty...
...equipped Anglo-French Expeditionary Force was routed and driven out of Norway after a futile dash to cut off the Germans...