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...What? In the actual zones of Ethiopian war, the number of square miles overrun by Italian forces as the year ended was about 30,000 -a mapmaker's fact of doubtful significance. Neutral military experts in Washington, Berlin. Paris and London consider that Premier Mussolini's deepest purposes have not yet been revealed, but that unquestionably he has hamstrung his soldier's war in East Africa by political and diplomatic back-seat driving from Rome. Darting raids by Italian bombers, unaccompanied by troop operations on the ground, have resulted in little more than the enemy...
...attempted to ''blackmail" Russia by threatening to break off relations unless Montevideo was given a large Soviet order for Uruguayan cheese. This was supposed to have stung Dictator Stalin into assuming a defiant attitude-i. e.. Millions for Revolution but Not One Cent For Cheese. Neutral observers considered it more likely, if cheese really entered the picture, that whichever Soviet official refused to buy the cheese is now getting a wigging. To the Comintern a Soviet legation somewhere in South America is worth buying almost any quantity of cheese...
...Horizontal Issue." Neutral observers throughout Europe noted mournfully last week that the Ethiopian Question seemed to have become a ''horizontal issue," not so much dividing the nations of Europe as internationally splitting social layers. Broadly speaking, the upper classes, from Scotland to the Golden Horn, and the governments of nations ruled by aristocrats and the bourgeoisie were for peace at the price of partitioning Ethiopia to make a Fascist holiday. Broadly speaking the proletariat, the lower classes and nations governed by Socialists (such as the Scandinavian kingdoms) were for delivering the death blow to original Fascism by means...
...Rome and in Moscow neutral observers felt that the Power of Hearst had speeded up both dictatorships in the direction of Justice...
...weakness of the League in these first fifteen years of its existence has been due primarily to our absence, for, because of our pre-eminent economic and potential military strength, our claim to the right as a neutral to trade with the aggressive state has made all efforts of the League to establish collective security abortive...