BRITISH DIPLOMACY
SUCCESS IN MEDITERRANEAN. How signal is the success of British diplomacy in the Mediterranean is best realised by casting back our minds less than two years, writes "Scrutator” in the Sunday Times. We wore then being exhorted to take the side of the Red Republicans against Franco's Nationalists. Our relations with Italy were bad. our position in the Eastern Mediterranean with Turkey still unsecured, Arabs hostile and Jews aggrieved. The position was one of real danger. From end to end of the Mediterranean we had not a friend with the exception of the Jews in Palestine on whom we could certainly rely. Mr Chamberlain made friendship with Spain possible by strict neutrality in the civil war; nor did his cultivation of Italian goodwill fail to get a certain response. But it was the treaty with Russia into which Germany most hastily rushed in fear of a long war with us. which she could quite easily have avoided, that completed the good work and converted the whole Mediterranean from Gibraltar to the Caucasus into a friendly lake. It is just both to recognise the beneficence of the change and to .ascribe it to the right causes in the skill of our diplomacy and the folly of the German.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1939, Page 5
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