The announcement made in the House of Commons on Monday by Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to the effect that Great Britain would be prepared to allow Germany, and Italy time on the British Broadcasting Company's programmes in exchange for time for Great Britain on their networks is an interesting one, but it is an invitation which is not likely to be accepted. The idea of a propaganda war being carried into each other's countries by consent, seems very attractive from one point of view, but not particularly so from another. With the principle that the more the people of the various nations are acquainted with the ideals, and aspirations of the others the better there must be agreement. There cannot be anything else. But there are many who support the view that the issues at present raised in Europe, are not so much because of the desires of the masses, so far as the Dictator states are concerned, but are the results of personal ambitions. It does not matter how earnestly it is contended that the peoples of Germany, ard Italy are solidly behind their leaders; the fact remains that last September when the German, and Italian peoples realized how close they were to the verge of war, there was every expression of satisfaction that Mr. Chamberlain had been able to avert it. For the time being at any rate he became the biggest figure in the imaginations of the masses in Europe, and there is in that fact to be discovered corroboration of the view that no matter how willing their leaders may be to plunge them into warfare,'
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