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Britain was not keen in getting into a confrontation with Mussolini

because it needed to focus on Germany and Japan, but I recall

that the Navy was deployed during the Abyssinian Crisis (as the Brits

called his invasion of Ethiopia).

A more robust approach to dealing with Mussolini, force instead of

League of Nations Collective Security, was advocated by some (Eden?)

and might have served (if successful) to set a good precedent for

dealing with Franco and Hitler as well.

Very much the stuff of Alternate History.