NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE application of sanctions to Italy by fifty nations has produced no outward manifestations except the issue of a manifesto by the Fascist Grand Council declaring November 18th a day of shame and humiliation fertile world (not for Italy) and ordering that a permanent record in stone of " the siege of Italy " be affixed to toili balls throughout the kingdom. The British Embassy and other buildings were heavily defended on Monday against rioters, mainly students, but the situation in the capital has gradually become calmer. It now remains for the pressure of sanctions to make itself felt. Xi) rapid results can be looked for unless the extension of the list of key products proposed by Canada is agreed on.. The Argentine Republic has set a good example in that respect. The question of petrol is obviously of capital importance. If League States like Russia, Rumania and Persia cut off supplies altogether, and President Roosevelt succeeds by one means or another (and he has various instruments at his disposal) in Persuading American exporters at any rate to limit their supplies to Italy to the level of a normal year, the move- ments of.Italian troops in Abyssinia, both in the air and on the ground, will be very nearly paralysed. Sanctions that are really effective will in the • end be in everyone's interest, Italy's included.
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