THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 4, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
-WINDSOR HOUSE
IMAGINE MR.
CHURCHILL -!
Imagine Mr. Churchill, authority on matters his- torical, master of stra- tegy, student of sea-pow- er-imagine Mr. Chur-
chill saying this of the United States' part in the World War:
Legally we owe this debt to the United States, but logically we don't, because] America should have! minded her own business! and stayed out of the, World War. If she had, done so, the Allies would have made peace with' Germany in the spring of 1917, thus saving over a. million British, French,; American, and other lives and preventing the sub- sequent rise of Fascism and Nazism.
Immagine Mr. Churchill, one of the earliest Britons to recognise the character of the Nazi threat against the British Common- wealth of Nations and that large commonwealth of freedom-loving nations of which the United States is a foremost mem- ber-imagine Mr. Chur- chill saying that!
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RADIO
PARIS
FRANCE FOUND A CLEAR-SIGHTED LEADER IN PETAIN “
Who Will Overthrow
The Duce?
-By-
W. H. Biss
“A census of farm stock and agricultural produce is now be
ng carried out, ostensibly on or- ders from Rome. But the officials superintending the count are Ger-
majority of Italians, although his prestige may have suffered by re- cent blowS
"Ciano is detested, His artu- gance. his insufferable patron- age, and his interference with the enemies even army have made
of the sycophants who surround- ed him when he was really an important person in foreign
affairs.
ITALY, like a very sick man!
which not tossing on a bed Imagine Mr. Churchill,
make even skilled hands can in a position to know all comfortable, is under-going his life long how British mental and moral stocktaking.
With her d.cams of n revival and American naval of the glories of the Roman strategy complement Empire shattered; the flower of Fer Polonai armies crushed in each other, in a position the swift onrush of Britain's - and the Patriot too to know that through! perial forces
"His army in Abyssinia, Italy's furtunes their submarine warfare are near their lowest ebb. on American shipping the Germans made the World War America's business, in a position to know what sort of peace can be m
What, the Italians are asking. will come next!
A prominent anti-Fascist, exil- ed for his activities some months belore Italy entered the war, but well supplied with
informati440) sources underground Rome, has been discussing with made with an undefeated me the past, present and future Government whose policy of his country.
While admitting the sullen is expansionism by viol-| discontent of the majority of ence at the expense of italians and their deep-rooted de- other nations imagine sire for peace, he was unable to Mr. Churchill saying such a thing!
recognise in these
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pro-Germans views. his friendship with Von Ribbentrop, and the belief that he, more than Wherever one goes, my cur- respondent adds, une finds signs any other man, was responsible of Nazi
for the Duce's decision to fight control. Army. navy. force. air
shipbuilding, and Britant, make him the centre of essential industries are gradually, the people's hatred.
"His wife, Edda, passing into the hands of Beriini.
also She
Mussolini's
has daughter. *Rumours of unrest which favourite have reached England are well fallen from popular favour. Landed. Thure have been de- was her father's adviser, and it monstrations.
the especially in
was her ambition to see her hus- north, not against Fascism, but band succeed the Duce when he against the high cost of living, laid down his office, the severe rationing and general poverty.
snub Clano
when he
the
not
the
"Although her illness may bring them together again, I
was feelings any
a serious "They have been crushed with learn that there
between Mussolini and sign at present of an organised
an iron hund, for the army split revolt against the Fascist regime. chiefs, despite their dislike and Edda. Not for the first time did
The fabric which Mussolini has at times open contempt for many the Duce Yes, it is difficult. But so carefully built will not crumple of the Fascist leaders, are well proffered advice, and Edda suf-
50 casily #s some people to
aware of the danger of permitting fered in consequence. somebody managed
Britain
"In all considerations of he appear to believe,"
the people to voice their feelings
future of Italy one must imagine it and to circul- said, "There is, of course, a grow-
openly. resentment against
the influence of "But as the war drags on, and overlook ate it in otherwise well-ing
real masters in Berlin. It finds
the hope of victory dies, there Vatican. The Pope is no friend informed circles. Evid-expression chiefly in Rome, where is bound to come a change.
of the Duce. His leanings
the Royal family, The danger is that a revolt towards
of restoration ently Mr. Churchill could the public
the with may be organised, not by not imagine himself say-
true lovers of freedom-those Monarchy as the who ing it, for the British
are ardently anti-Fascist- the country, the power and in- "I have a letter here from a but by elements opposed to the fluence of the Vatican would be Embassy in Washington smalt armament manufacturer, present reglme, who, attributing greatly enhanced.
has declared:
Italy's
is
more
outspoken
than in the provinces.
Nazi Control
I can
the
are
for
the real rulers of
Will Arise
a great personal friend of mine, to the Mussolini gang the evils but one who is still a staunch which have befallen Italy, wish As a number of persons Fascist. It was smuggled out of to sce them replaced by other leaders equally whole-hearted and
"But the Italian Monarch is a some newspapers the country by methods which
divulged, Fascists. cannot be
very weak reed. Its outstanding have apparently been de-turally
but of its genuineness
figures are Prince Umberto, and ceived by an utter untruth vouch. It is nearly three weeks
Big Business the Duke of Aosta, cousin of the"
King and now deposed Viceroy in Italy, as of Abyssinia. put forward for the sole old, but what it reveals is not
"Big business contract everywhere else, is anti-demo- "The former is without doubt purpose
destroying
his firm was, cratic. It supports Fascism be- one of the most popular figures good relations between the countersigned by a high Nazi cause it has given it unlimited in Rome, He is a 'people's" United States and Brit- army officer, and adds that de- power and kept up a supply of prince, and as such is a danger!
the cheap labour. It resents
the Fascist dictatorship. ain, the British Embassy temporary headquarters of the war, not because it is against decree abolishing his automatic ac-
of
stale news.
"He
that a writes with placed.
livery was
to be made to
me
1
A
this to
heir- to the throne as wishes to state on the German army corps at Milan. Britain, but because it threatens cession
the was passed by that the very existence of the social apparent "Further, he tells Prime Minister's author-
many of the most prominent In-system under which Italian capl- Council some time
ago-a sign that Mussolini feared him as a ity that it is totally un-dustrialists complain that Nazi talism has flourished.
now installed as "It would be prepared to rival. true that he ever made officials are
and technical experts. In their plants. sacrifice Mussolini, Ciano,
"The Dake of Aosta is a horse any such statement to the They are our real bosses, hp his Council if it could replace of another colour. He is a very;
stutes.
them with others more accom- ambitious man and a first-rate cause above or similar effect.
a lost modating.
soldier, Fighting
commander "But that would not bring as Americans have learn-tion with that sea power.
of the Italian ed that any war that They will find it easier to about peace with Britain. It forces in East Africa, he exhibited would not split the Axis: But it the best qualities of a military threatens British sen belleve that Mr. Chur- might be supported by people leader, but he is also a strong power threatens the in- chill knows to what here in the belief that it repre- supporter of Fascism,
sented "a spontaneous anti- Even if he were free, he would
terests that Americans extent the World War, have been able to defend and this war, IS their through tacit coopera-business.
Fascist revolt.
be most unlikely to lead the "Personally, I do not belleve people in in revolt, whether that Mussolini will be deposed so against the Duce or for the Royal easily. He is still a giant to the Family.
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