Re: No Hitler: Polish-German Danzig war

"David Johnson" <trolleyfan_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> No. Mussolini waged a "pacification" in North Africa, but that isn't
>> expansionism; the colony was already Italian. Mussolini was
>> expansionist in _Eastern_ Africa.
>>
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> And of course *that* sort of thing dates back to the 1890s for Italy.

Well, yes. But things had changed. European land-grabs were in fa****on and

respectable in the 1890s, no longer so in 1935, and against a LoN member. 
Most rulers other than a Mussolini would probably have followed the French

and British in the new fa****on of economic penetration.