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...League which would reflect badly on the moral authority of Great Britain. The average Englishman realizes this, but it is hard for him also to realize that it is partly the fault of a Government which allowed tons of poison gas to be shipped to Italian armies through the Suez Canal and permitted British Oil companies to sell their products as fuel for Mussolini's airplanes and tanks. They have learned the bitter lesson that sanctions are useless and futile, unless they are carried through to their logical conclusions, relentlessly and brutally...
When the new British policy is framed, England will have to bear in mind the fact that Italy is slowly manoeuvering herself into a position of dominance in the Mediterranean, and that the Suez and Malta are dangerously near the Fascist axe. The days of the old-fashioned European Alliances and Alignments seem to be back to stay...
...Foreign Secretary Eden to state his case. The use of poison gas against the Ethiopians was the point at issue, and he had eight specific instances of it between Dec. 30, and mid-March. The Suez Canal Co. reported that over 250 tons of Italian poison gas had passed the canal in the last four months. Italy must either agree to an immediate armistice or face an oil embargo, was the Eden ultimatum...
...would cut west across dry land for 30 miles to a point about 20 miles from the Gulf. There it would pick up the Withlacoochee, follow its course down to the Gulf at Port Inglis. Total length of the canal: 200 miles, including the sea approaches, twice that of Suez, four times that of Panama. Channel depth: 30 ft. Total excavation: 570,000,000 cubic yards, about twice that of Panama. Total construction time: six years. Total estimated cost: $146,000,000 (30% of Panama). Florida's will be a sea level canal (like Suez), not a lock canal...
...ship lost its rudder; the whole party was towed back to safety by the U. S. Coast Guard. Then Kilkenny sold his shipmates the idea of building a Chinese Junk, and sailing it the 10.000 miles from Hongkong through the Dutch East Indies around Cape Cormorin through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean and out again at Gibraltar, up the Seine and straight to the Paris Fair of 1937. Later, if all goes well, the craft will cross the Atlantic for the New York World's Fair...