James Holland

They're dependent on Britain for coal.

Britain is the leading coal exporter in the world in the 1930s.

So...

Britain's approach to fascist Spain and approach to fascist Italy has been very much sort of stick and carrot.

Britain's approach to fascist Spain and approach to fascist Italy has been very much sort of stick and carrot. It's like, you know, we'll let you do what you do as long as you kind of stay in your box. And, you know, we'll continue to provide you with supplies and coal and whatever it is you need as long as you don't kind of go too far.

Britain's approach to fascist Spain and approach to fascist Italy has been very much sort of stick and carrot. It's like, you know, we'll let you do what you do as long as you kind of stay in your box. And, you know, we'll continue to provide you with supplies and coal and whatever it is you need as long as you don't kind of go too far.

Britain's approach to fascist Spain and approach to fascist Italy has been very much sort of stick and carrot. It's like, you know, we'll let you do what you do as long as you kind of stay in your box. And, you know, we'll continue to provide you with supplies and coal and whatever it is you need as long as you don't kind of go too far.

It's like, you know, we'll let you do what you do as long as you kind of stay in your box.

And, you know, we'll continue to provide you with supplies and coal and whatever it is you need as long as you don't

go too far.

And so that's why Mussolini is very anxious in 1938 and again in 1939 to kind of be the power broker and kind of not let Germany go to war. But Germany's just, you know, they signed the Axis Pact of Steel in May 1939, where they become formal allies. This is Hitler and Mussolini, Italy and Germany. But it's always a very, very unequal partnership right from the word go.

And so that's why Mussolini is very anxious in 1938 and again in 1939 to kind of be the power broker and kind of not let Germany go to war. But Germany's just, you know, they signed the Axis Pact of Steel in May 1939, where they become formal allies. This is Hitler and Mussolini, Italy and Germany. But it's always a very, very unequal partnership right from the word go.

And so that's why Mussolini is very anxious in 1938 and again in 1939 to kind of be the power broker and kind of not let Germany go to war. But Germany's just, you know, they signed the Axis Pact of Steel in May 1939, where they become formal allies. This is Hitler and Mussolini, Italy and Germany. But it's always a very, very unequal partnership right from the word go.

And so that's why Mussolini is very anxious in 1938 and again in 1939 to be the power broker and not let Germany go to war.

But Germany, they signed the Axis Pact of Steel in May 1939, where they become formal allies.

This is Hitler and Mussolini, Italy and Germany.

But it's always a very, very unequal partnership right from the word go.

And one of the reasons Mussolini signs it is because he fears that Germany has designs on Italy Yeah, it's not because he thinks, oh, these guys are great. You know, there are natural bedfellows. It's so that he can what it's a mutually convenient pact whereby Germany gets on with whatever it wants to do up in northern Europe and eastern Europe.

And one of the reasons Mussolini signs it is because he fears that Germany has designs on Italy Yeah, it's not because he thinks, oh, these guys are great. You know, there are natural bedfellows. It's so that he can what it's a mutually convenient pact whereby Germany gets on with whatever it wants to do up in northern Europe and eastern Europe.

And one of the reasons Mussolini signs it is because he fears that Germany has designs on Italy Yeah, it's not because he thinks, oh, these guys are great. You know, there are natural bedfellows. It's so that he can what it's a mutually convenient pact whereby Germany gets on with whatever it wants to do up in northern Europe and eastern Europe.