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...plaintiffs, in other words, might whistle for their money, but the judgment meant more. Here was a sly opening gambit by which Britain, some months hence, may recognize legally the Italian conquest of Ethiopia and end a very tense diplomatic situation...
...Canterbury? Roman Canterbury, near the seacoast of Kent, was a convenient stopping place for travelers to Britain. Here in 597 A.D. came that ardent Benedictine, St. Augustine, a missionary from Rome, to found a monastery and become the first Archbishop of Canterbury, even before the Norman Conquest. Ever since then Canterbury's archbishops have been England's primates, by simple priority. The archbishopric of York, far to England's north, was established two centuries later, not to challenge the authority of Canterbury but purely for administrative reasons...
...guaranteeing the safety of the Rhineland. As the discussions continued, the German Foreign Minister emphasized that Germany had no intention of returning to the League of Nations, and Mussolini sympathetically indicated that Italy, though still a member of the League, would have no truck with Geneva until the Italian conquest of Ethiopia is recognized...
Back in Britain, Potato Jones became at once a hero to Laborites and Leftist sympathizers. Not since the British Government's worried acceptance of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia has the Baldwin Government been so attacked in Parliament as it was last week over its refusal to guarantee safety to British ships attempting to run the Bilbao blockade...
...CONQUEST OF POWER (2 Vols.)-Albert Weisbord-Covici-Friede ($7.50). Ambitiously attempted 1,208-page encyclopedia tracing the rise and decline of Liberalism, Anarchism, Syndicalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism; by a onetime U. S. Communist...