While a certain amount of astonishtive's suggestion for Jeconomic sanctions to include coal, oil and metals, it is more than prob-Jable that all the government intends convey is that no such steps will taken without the consent of th [Canadian legislature. The latter might possibly desire not to be con= sidered morally" or automatically bound to aid Great Britain in the Jevent of an Anglo-Italian War aris ing out of the stiffening of sanctions, out that is not a contingency which lis reasonably to be expected. Tt has been made quite clear in the pro-Inouncements of Mr. Stanley Baldwin Jand other British leaders that there sno kelihood of Great Britain Aghting Itely, save as a member of ithe whole of that portion of the [League which has agreed in the ap plication of sanctions. That position is reinforced by the definite assurance iven Mr. Baldwin by M Laval, that fan Ttatian attack upon the British fect in the Mediterranean as a result of ube application of sanctions would immediately bring France to her assistance against Italy as an aggressor. But it is neither the intention of France nor of Great [Britain that they together, and they Jatone, should be called upon to impose "ultimate sanctions upon Italy, should the necessity for so drastic an faction eventuate, It is only by collective action in the face of every Joventuatity that the authority of the League can be vindicated, and if the withdrawal of Canada from the fended sanctions dees become an complished fact, new considerate may arise the prospect of which may Met be any too agreeable,
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