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Instead of trying to fight Japan, which he considered hopeless, the Dictator has waged innumerable practice wars upon Chinese Communist forces. These organized themselves in the hinterland under those Soviet auspices which made possible the original conquest of China by the Ningpo Napoleon. In 1934 the bulk of China's insurgent Communists had been coralled by Chiang in Kiangsi Province, and the Generalissimo's officers awaited orders, the execution of which, they confidently told him, would drive the Reds "into the sea"-i. e. down to the South China seacoast where they could be conveniently slaughtered...
...Germany, in return for recognizing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, is to receive trade concessions in the Empire...
This week Premier Milan Stoyadinovich of Yugoslavia was reported so "frightened" by the Hitler-Ciano accord that he was about to throw over his country's close ties with France and recognize Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Since Yugoslavia is the "historic foe" of Italy, such news from Belgrade rang like victory in Rome...
History 4--Greece to the Roman Conquest--has become History...
Finally Leon Blum reaffirmed those principles which Benito Mussolini, with his conquest of Ethiopia, and Japan, with her seizure of Manchukuo, have tried to make seem old-fashioned and even silly. "French Peace supposes for all nations Liberty for self-determination!" cried Orator Blum. "It supposes Equality of right between States, big or little, as between individuals. It supposes Fraternity, that is to say, progressive elimination of war, solidarity against an aggressor and material and moral disarmament...