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...Ababa last week, Doggedly Italy's southern army under General Graziani plowed ahead toward Harar, Jijiga and Diredawa, key cities of the southeast. Only nature opposed them. At Harar, second city of the defunct empire, news that its defender, Ras Nassibu, had also fled the country caused another outbreak of rioting and looting almost as severe as that which shook Addis Ababa. Soon the Italians marched in, put down disorder with a heavy hand...
Debated the Prime Minister: "With the view of obtaining collective security, we are members of the League of Nations. . . . Whatever the reason, collective security in the case of Italy and Abyssinia was not able to prevent the outbreak...
...continue the war with no diminution in supplies of munitions. This means that the country which has made its preparations beforehand with its munitions reserves is in an incomparably stronger position than a country which would have to improvise in the situation that might arise after the outbreak...
...bloody tragedy of the Great War ... the views of the President of the United States had reached the ear of the world ... in Fourteen Points! "No people succumbed more completely to the magic power of this fantasy than the Germans. ... We had been dragged into the War, for whose outbreak we were exactly as guiltless, or as guilty, as other peoples. . . . That peace which was intended to be the final stone laid on the cover of the Tomb of War developed into dragons' seed for new struggles...
...believe that the European situation today is as acute as in 1914", Professor Langer stated, "and I do not look for an outbreak of war in the near future. As to the possibility of conflict within the next five years, it seems to me that that is too far ahead to predict the outcome of events with any certainty. The situation is far too complex and there are too many conflicting factors involved...