BRITISH DIPLOMACY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 9

BRITISH DIPLOMACY

MEDITERRANEAN COUP

GERMAN NEWSPAPER VIEW

CLASH WITH ITALY

FORESEEN

United Press Association—By Electric Tele-

graph—Copyright.

LONDON, November: 5.

The Berlin - correspondent of "The Times" says. ,that the "Allgemeine Zeitung," in an article on collective security, says:

! "After a month of war in Abyssinia, France has lost the League leadership and Britain has .assumed if France aroused suspicions in small countries, but England has understood how to secure respect as a protector of small nations and coloured races.

"The world again marvels, at the methodical thoroughness,l energy, and success of British authority. The naval agreement .between England and Germany eliminated the North Sea as a danger zone, which, like the British Fleet, has shifted to the Mediterranean. The danger of France declaring herself neutral in the event of a clash between England and Italy is now dispelled. England has French Mediterranean ports at her disposal as bases, and need not worry about the possible loss of Malta.

"England in four weeks removed the danger of q Latin Mediterranean. alliance disturbing European' equilibrium. Her diplomats worked as hard as the Italian navvies at Adigrat, but did not sweat over it. Moreover, England can credit herself-with the restoration of the Greek monarchy. Mediterranean organisation is in firm hands. Seldom was a great political aim so cheaply achieved.

"It has all been done in the name of collectivism, which England means sincerely, ,tiut an important section of German opinion considers that if 'and when Italy is brought to book it will be a short,, sharp armed clash with Britain and not by a long-distance blockade under the League banner. Great Britain^' conscious of this, will abandon collectivism in favour of an Anglo-German agreement of much wider scope than the naval agreement."