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...Paris, alarmed journals of the Left, which had hoped that the Anglo-French solidarity, just bulwarked by the visit of King George & Queen Elizabeth, gave Czechoslovakia a blank check to do as she liked about German demands, clamored that by thrusting in the cushion last week, Perfidious Albion had tricked Prague. There was some truth in this. Britain had seized an opportunity to check any Czech rashness which might precipitate a general European...
Weighty Newspundit Walter Lippmann, in Paris to hail Democracy's new potency in Europe, resulting from recent Anglo-French rearmament and collaboration, cabled: "The period of Franco-British impotence under the menace of a knockout blow came to an end in April of this year. The end was marked by the creation of what is in all but name an alliance. This alliance was tested in the Czechoslovak crisis of May 21 and survived its first severe practical test...
...rumors that she is in the market for foreign credits, the thing Mussolini needs most is a headache powder in the form of a big foreign loan. Most likely place to get it is in London and observers believe that when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sees his cherished Anglo-Italian pact go into effect with the withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain, the British pocketbook will be invitingly opened...
...Italian planes from Italian-held Majorca sinking 18 ships in 19 days. Rome's Giornale d'Italia likewise boasted five foreign ships bombed by Italian planes. Regardless of this, Britain's "realistic" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is Italy's most potent English friend. On the Anglo-Italian agreement of last April-an agreement not to be implemented until Italy withdraws her forces from Rightist Spain-is staked Neville Chamberlain's political life. That life has become closer & closer to jeopardy recently as popular and Parliamentary indignation rose (see p. 21) over the mounting casualties among...
...Anglo-Italian relations over the war in Spain last week took a slight turn for the better (see above), so did financial relations between Britain and Germany. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon was able to inform the House of Commons that an Anglo-German agreement had been reached providing for continuance of the debt service on Austrian loans, repudiated by the Reich after Anschluss...