Tough Talk

Last week was tough-talk week for the European democracies.

The French Chamber of Deputies served notice on Dictator Benito Mussolini that he had just as well give up any idea of getting French territory. It passed unanimously a resolution which: 1) declared the French Empire indivisible; 2) placed it under the same protection as continental France; 3) asserted that it could not be "transmitted, delegated or shared."

Later, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, speaking in the House of Commons, served notice that Britain would tolerate no "threat to vital interests of France, from whatever quarter it came." Any threat, he said, would "evoke the immediate cooperation of this country." It was the strongest pledge of aid to France yet made by Mr. Chamberlain.

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