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organizers of the Ballot in Wales resolved to educate voters on the price to be paid for a policy of 'collective security'. They were granted little time for their campaign, however, for in Abyssinia Mussolini began to test the League and British support for it soon after the Ballot ended. The outcome was deeply disappointing for the L.N.U. As E. H. Carr (who was soon to take up residence in Wales as Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth) noted, in October 1936, economic sanctions were now discredited with the public and 'that pompous piece of intellectualist jargon "military sanctions" was [now] translated into English by the terrible monosyllable "war" \36 That shift in the public outlook marked the beginning of a sharp decline in popular support for the L.N.U. in Wales. J. A. THOMPSON Lexington, Kentucky ,r',LE- H. Carr, 'Public Opinion As A Safeguard Of Peace', International Affairs, 15 (November-December 1936), 858.