Should Seek Her SI*e
(Washington Star)
Frobably to no other govern
ment than that of Greece, or pos
sibly Jugoslavia, w'ould Italy Dave
acted as it has done in this case,
responsibility, the fact that thf
It w'ould never have moved to
seize Corsica if a crime had been
committed by Frenchmen against
Italian officers. Apart from the
specific wrong of acting in war
making manner before a chance
has been given to determine the
victim of the unwarranted aggres
sion is a government that is in no
position to act in defense, owing
to recent reverses and disasters
in Asia, makes this a flagrant of
fense against international law
and order.
Case for the League
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Were the French and British less
bitterly antagonistic such a courso
would not be difficult, for public
sentiment In both countries is
strongly anti-Italian in the pres
ent crisis. There is a feeling in
France and Great Britain as in the
United States that Mussolini is
forcing war for political purposes
and in blithe disregard of possible
disastrous consequences. No one
questions that the murders on
the Albanian frontier constitute a
serious grievance against Greece,
but there is a general conviction
that it is a case which should be
handled by the League of Nations
and which would be handled by
the league were it not for the
Italian leader's preference for
fighting. In spite of this senti
ment, however, the British arid
French governments are very un
likely to act. They are more in
terested in the Ruhr than they are
in Athens and Corfu.
