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...suggested the advantages of this name to Sir George Clerk, but the British Ambassador reacted by freezing up. Without exactly saying so, Sir George intimated that the French may be the sort of people who would keep the League going and save Europe from unpleasant complications by letting Il Duce have his war under some sweeter name, but that His Majesty's Government are not that sort of people. Few days later, when the odor of oil arose, it was like attar of roses in the black nostrils of peasant-born Pierre Laval...
...ensuing mimic struggle of 500,000 Italians was pitched in Il Duce's characteristic vein of irony. His "Reds" succeeded in keeping the King's "Blues" from invading the Fascist Kingdom...
...George" Lansbury, addressed impassioned letters to the Pope, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and British Evangelical leaders. He also made hopeful eyes at President Roosevelt, declaring that the U. S. will be unable to keep out of any major war and should join in cracking down on Il Duce. The Archbishop of York publicly hoped that the League of Nations will ask and obtain aid of the Great Powers to close the Suez Canal against Italian forces, thus barring the eagles of Fascism from their prey. Finally up from the French baths of Aix heaved Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
...Italy sharply, made the munitions buying Dictator wince at the vast, invisible potency of London financiers. If any sneak up the Blue Nile was started it was a genuine sneak. Comfortable Punch cartooned a musical comedy interlude in which Dame France and John Bull, wagging their fingers at II Duce, sing: We don't want you to fight But, by jingo, if you do, We shall probably issue a joint memorandum suggesting a mild disapproval of you! All this seemed less funny this week as Greeks reported that a fleet of British bombing planes had swept over their islands...
Grasping Romano's shoulders with a soldierly grip, Il Duce said: "You have spoken well, but your military class has not been called...