Of the earlier reinforcements recently reported in Libya it was declared by Rome that they were in accordance with arrangements made in April last The continuance of the stream of troops from Italy to the'African colony can hardly bear the same interpretation and it is difficult to understand the reason for their despatch. Mr. David Lloyd George seems to be under the impression that they are intended for Spain, but it is hardly likely that Italy would so embarrass her representatives at the Non-Intervention Committee's meetings. Some anxiety has been discernible in Egypt where Signor Mussolini has been moved to give assurances of the benevolence of his intentions in that country's. regard. Nevertheless the massing of troops in Libya cannot be entirely ignored by that country, any more than by the Sudan whose defence forces have already been strained by the Abyssinian campaign. Nor is it comforting to learn that Libyan Mohammedans have found it incumbent on them to express a gratuitous sympathy with the Palestinian Arabs with whom normally they would have little in common, Developments of this kind may have perfectly innocuous interpretations, but this is a cynical world which is apt at times to be cautious in accepting anything on trust.
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