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Mussolini's troops went to war with Ethiopia one month later.

"Ah, but you see, all that belongs to the unregenerate past, is locked
away in the limbo of the old, the wicked days. The world progresses.
We have endeavored, by means of the League of Nations and the whole
fabric of international law, to make it impossible for nations
nowadays to infringe upon each other's rights. In trying to upset the
empire of Ethiopia, Mussolini is making a most dangerous and foolhardy
attack upon the whole established structure, and the results of such
an attack are quite incalculable. Who is to say what will come of it
in a year, or two, or three? With Germany arming at breakneck speed,
England lost in a pacifist dream, France corrupt and torn by
dissension, America remote and indifferent; Madame, my dear lady, do
you not tremble for your children?"

-Prime Minister Winston Churchill's response during a luncheon to a
Madame Lepelletier, regarding England's inevitable involvement in the
Second World War; as recorded by American author Vincent Sheean,
while they were residing at the villa of Maxine Elliot in southern France,
September 1935