Unheroic but Practical.
Assuming that the Anglo-Italian pact endures, it may easily become the basis for a working balance of power in Europe, says the “New York Herald Tribune.” The balance will not be attractive in all its details, will not establish a universal reign of peace by any means and may be at any time upset, but still it represents a realistic stabilisation of European relations that may buy another decade of freedom from the unimaginable catastrophe of a general war. In contemplating this outcome, one can only admire the remarkable diplomatic skill with which Signor Mussolini has threaded his way through the perils to which Italy’s geographical weakness exposes her, and the sagacity with which Mr Chamberlain has, unheroically but practically, put the immediate gain before the dramatic but illusory promises of the millennium. Mr Chamberlain has been "realistic.” There is reason to hope that the future will show this to have been realism at its best.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1938, Page 6
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159Unheroic but Practical. Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1938, Page 6
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