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==Historiography== [[A. J. P. Taylor]] argued that it was the event that "killed the League [of Nations]" and that the pact "was a perfectly sensible plan, in line with the League's previous acts of [[conciliation]] from [[Corfu]] to [[Manchuria]]" which would have "ended the war; satisfied Italy; and left Abyssinia with a more workable, national territory" but that the "common sense of the plan was, in the circumstances of the time, its vital defect".<ref>A. J. P. Taylor, ''The Origins of the Second World War'' (Penguin, 1991), p. 128.</ref> The military historian [[Correlli Barnett]] has argued that if Britain alienated Italy, Italy "would be a potential enemy astride England's main line of imperial communication at a time when she was already under threat from two existing potential enemies at opposite ends of the line [Germany and Japan]. If – worse – Italy were to fight in a future war as an ally of Germany or Japan, or both, the British would be forced to abandon the Mediterranean for the first time since 1798". Therefore, in Barnett's view, it was "highly dangerous nonsense to provoke Italy" due to Britain's military and naval weakness and that therefore the pact was a sensible option.<ref>Correlli Barnett, ''The Collapse of British Power'' (Pan, 2002), pp. 352–3 and p. 356.</ref>
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