Jernment is said to have been caught bnewares and to have improvised a. [policy of non-action partly on in-[stinetive repugnance to anything that might lead. to the spread. of communism, and partly because of [British vested interests in China and the fear of a revolution in Japan if leconcmic sanctions were applied.
In the Lalo-Abyssinian crisis Briig. accused of ignoring the Covenant and of having attempted {to settle the matter "out of court" lby an Imperialist bargain with Italy to secure-its support Jn: the European
}Government 1s. accused of dishonesty
the strength of its. vaunted support joe the collective system and. Mr. Churchill and Mr, Amery are quoted with effect In proof of its Jand inconsistent tactics.
Spain the Government pictured as on the herns of a-dilemma and pursuing a tortuous course in the hope that from a deadlock there might emerge some alternative to the two extremes—the triumph of com= jinnnism on the one hand and thd Fascist-Wazl alliance with their hold gri, Spain and the Mediterranean on the other.
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