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2. D. C. Watt, ‘The Secret Laval-Mussolini Agreement of 1935 on Ethiopia’, in E. M. Robertson (ed.), The Origins of the Second World War (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1971), pp. 225–42.
3. L. Pratt, East of Malta, West of Suez: Britain’s Mediterranean Crisis, 1936–1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. 16.
4. See, for example, A. Marder, ‘The Royal Navy and the Ethiopian Crisis, 1935–36’, The American Historical Review, 75, no. 5 (1970), pp. 1327–56;
5. A. L. Goldman, ‘Sir Robert Vansittart’s Search for Italian Cooperation against Hitler, 1933–36’, Journal of Contemporary History, 9 (1974), pp. 93–132;