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MORATORIUM
It is to be hoped that there was nothing deceptive in Govern- ment's easy acceptance of the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo's motion in Legislative Couicil yesterday,! urging more vigorous steps to secure the lifting of the restric tions imposed by the Moratorium Proclamation. The motion was couched in such mild terms that
HOW ITALY BROUGHT ABOUT
MUSSOLINI'S DOWNFALL
By RANDOLPH
CHURCHILL
Various memoirs and diaries
lul, felt for the Germans, coupled which, have recently been pub-
with his contempt for the Italians, Ilshed are enibling the public to
whom he always regarded as un- form some opinion of Italy's porti-
worthy of his leadership. cipation in the war and of the
Unfortunately. Clano's diaries method by which she extricated
do not cover the steps, leading up herself from her alliance with the and far-sighted view of world to the coup d'etat which brought Germans and joined the Allies as events than anyone else in Italy. about the Tall of Mussolini. a co-belligerent.
He thought the Axis poet a didak- Though he was privy to the car- The Clano Diaries," which ter for Italy; he was sure that liest plona for the removal of have been published in the Unit-Briinin would fight on after the Mussolini, dating back to April. ed Sintes as well na in Italy, give collapse of France and that she 1042, he never referred to these on excellent inaldo picture of the would never make peace with In his diary. Doubtless he thought Fascist regime and of events from Germany; he never believed that it too dangerous. And his diarles the beginning of 1939 111 1043, Hitler would succeed in conquer-end well before the actuat, coup when Clana
from power, ing Russla; and from the moment į d'etat. These diaries are perhaps the most the United States entered the To understand the steps by interesting and fascinating book war, he was (unlike Hitler and which the fall of Mussolini was on the war yet published.
Mussolini) acutely conscious of brought about, there are at pre- And they show that Count) that country's immense
war- sent two sources which should be Galeazzo Clano was far more than making power.
studied. One is a series of orli- most eles by Count Dino Grandi, hatred formerly Italian Ambassador in
a playboy, as he was regarded in His diaries reveal, in a many countries. They reveal him | ¡lluminating way, the
na taking a far more sagacious | which his father-in-law, Musso-London. These were widely syndl-
The Aristocrat Who Forgot His Mother's Advice
I
ented about 18 months ago. They give a lively record, of the pro- ceedings at the meeting of the Grand Fascist Council on July 24, 1943, whch a majority of the Council voted against Mussolini.
Fascist Council
BY THE WAY
By BEACHCOMBER
com-
"The thin end of the wedge." Then were the startling words in which a spokesman mented on the lifting, of tho ban on slacks for women in the galleries of the House of Com- mons.
Slacks, Raid he, will lead to carnival hats with saucy words on the bands, and women will Jenn over and shout to their. favourite politicians. I said that ho had the wrong kind of women in mind. The girls, I said, who cha the whelk-stall proprietors at the seaside have not a consuming interest in the House of Commons. But he shook his head. "It will lond," anid he, "to backices bathing- dresses, and all manner of frivolity."
Question And Answer
"Mr. Speaker, is it in order for a lady in that gallery up there to sit dangling her stockingless legs over the edge, and flicking bita of biscuit on to the floor of the House?"
"She is a Friend. of Hansard, and therefore quita a dear little fool. The honourable member does not have to look at her."
Lack Of Progress The news that thousands of up: be- cause of a shortage of typista divorce cases are held
clearly,
indicates that not
Count Grandl, no doubt inad- vertently, attaches In his account far too much importance to the action of the Grand Fascist Coun- it provided little for any opposi-
One of the greater miracles of tion to get its teeth into, and the the British Arms la its jeep driver. driver, on the contrary, became have fallen whatever the Counell Hey-Jim, the captain's carroty efl. In fact, Mussolini would Attorney-General's response was A man of resource and cunning deeply, Interested by them. He had done even if it had not met. less counter-blast than a state-le he, and often the real power would disappear at night, and
This is all made plain in a re- enough people are able to use ment of the complicated factors behind the authority of the pip.
foep driver once called know the wrinkles, and he was not seppe Castellano, who was as that there is something wrong come back with a chicken. They cently published boole by Generata type-writer. And that means that have delayed action. Nothing. Novor Jim. Always slow to lesti. that the Hon. Mr. Strickland Hoy Jim. And
Bistant to General Vittorio Am- with our educational system. If Hey-Jim drove had to say, however, invalidated recklessly and well for one of the
"One night, back in Brussels, I brosio, Chief of the Italian Gen- all girls were taught to type ១ ២០៦៧ an they could walk, English gentlemen the main point which is simply greatest
had a shock. I went for a drink eral Staff and the man who play.
be divorced that twelve months should have have ever known.
It
at the brightest, nolatest bar I cd the greatest personal role in everybody could was comical to see them to could give adequate opportunity together, sitting upright, side by thumped hard. A brassy blonde d'etat. Castellano's book has not
find. A Negro pianist planning and executing the coup over and over again without all this fuse, Do we want our study them and provide the an ide in
of divorce the leap! Hop-Jim's shouted "Neyt end Dob" into a yet been published outside swers. The general impression, sullen, expressionless young face microphone.
figures to lag behind Italy. This is unfortunate, since those of America? rightly or wrongly, has been that under a raw mass of carroty hair maintenance of the moratorium and, und beside him his ear. "gire Baby outside, was the it gives far and away the most Jeep with carroty complete and unprejudiced ac- Hoy-Jim drinking a bottle of beer count of the events leading up to was the cap- the coup d'etat. And there, inside, tain, drinking a fine a l'eau.
While in Rome recently, I had was puzzled. What, oh what, would
think? Yet he was the opportunity of consulting got. He was not running away in a position to give an authorita not drinking his brandy to for various Impartial sources and am from anything at all. He did not live account of what really trick want noise or sox or drink to place. Although there are some build up any walls for him. In events which still remain obscure, stead, he seemed to be in search it is now possible to see all the to of something. I couldn't make itsellent facts in their true Ught.
out
We drank.meditatively together.
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bottle of Nan boer. are model. The rentals of hie Qutsido Hay Jim tilted back as
The Credit
nak this
In Passing
like Clapham Junction? I only Do you want an hotel to be
question becauso I heard someone complaining of an hotel where "nothing over meant. He missed the commo- happens." I know what be tion and clatter of the expen sive palaces,, strewn with vile furniture. and filled with a sur- of excited people, ging mob where everyone seems to be telephoning or having luggage moved about. He was a man under thirty, and therefore found silence intolerable. There probably wasn't even a radio bawling or droning all the time
.
Jerusalem, Aug. 27. Fourteen Arab political prison-
official policy, here or [Colonial Office, in the belief that the rehabilitation of the Colony would thereby be facilitated. Itain. A grave, solicitous officer, the early days of Liberation this considerate, gentle and expansive, may have been true. Today, the
Hoy Jim had painted "Ilya effect is the very reverse. Eape- Baby in red and white letter cially is this so with regard to the Ing on the front of the joep, and
the captain...pretended not failure to permit the open--rC-
notice. sumption of dealings in the share market. There is so much liquid
Let me describe to you this cap-As the captain, stared at his glass capital in the Colony today seek-tain in greater detall, for there the moley bar receded and you ing an outlet for investment that are few men like him left in the could almost hear the rustle of a
It's abundantly plain that the re-opening of the Stock Exchange Army of today. His hobby is to log settling in a great fireplace, credit for getting rid of Musso- would, it can safely be predicted, longer obtainable. He is rich to candles all rosy on old aliver.
talk about
wines that are noses the dull shine of shaded table lint should be divided between General Ambrosio and King Vic- good deal of heavy the extent that his riches bring
The captain was talking on his tor Emmanuel. It may be argued gambling, with shares going to him only responsibilities.
favourite subject-man manage-that they should have acted car- perhaps unwarrantably high Ho carries on his slander ment. The care of an officer's
ller, but there's no doubt that FORCIBLE FEEDING levels. The black market dealings shoulder, the burden of a heritage, personal batman, driver, platoon they were the effective personall- have already indicated such A trust. He is a director, of a of company.
ticя who took the "Ah, but are they grateful!" shouldered the responsibility, and
declalona, FOR STRIKERS
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they whether such
development been known, aching has niver the captain asked, "Aro
grateful, the men? I sometimes did the job. **Brd floor,
should be resisted. In fact, if it
It's equally clear that no politi The captain told me that he wonder." He dipped his straight succeeded in diverting the inter-owned two smail villages. They Greek nose into the brandy glass. cian, Fascist or anti-Fascist, players, who began a hunger strike in est of speculators from the pro humble, happy tenantry are low.
ed any decisiva part. Clano, the Acre prison until release or though privy to the plot at an death" six days ago, are now be- perty market, for example, to the No roofs leak and the sanitation,
early stage, was not consulted 'ining forcibly fed, according to la- stock exchange, we are not su though quite medieval, is in sturdy As the captain talked his eye the Onal stages. Grand was not formed Arab sources here. sure but that it could be regard-repair.
would wander across to the op-informed until late in the day, A three-hour. general strike 18 ed. as highly beneficial to the He believes, just as a girl who perito table, where there sat a and the action ho took, though being observed in Jaffa tonight Colony from a long-term point of believes in his daty, handed down many times before. Her name in reality
sells the War Cry beloved. He demure young woman ( had seen courageous and helpful, did not as a protest against continued de- view. It is, in any case, rather to him, to support and care for war Daisy, I remember.
affect the course of tention of Arab prisoners. “ odd that although conditions in those who were born within the
eventa. But this be did not know, The Mayor of Acre, who was She had that quality peculiar either when he acted or when he asked by the Palestine Arab the two Colonies are more or less scope of his overlordship. He to the young women of Brussels wrote his articles.
Higher Committee to persuade parallel, in respect of missing thinks that their stations are truly best described as cuddliness. Al
Tomorrow I shall try to describe the prisonerY to end their fast share registers, lost scrip and so
curves and coolness. Flouncy
in detail what was the real courso | was 'refused admission by the on, Hong Kong should lay so far
skirts and wedge heels. I was behind Singapore in getting the captain is
One thing more. My friend the never sure what she did, but she of events and how the personall-prison authorities yesterday, BAYS a bachelor. In Lon- was clearly "a lady," for her ties of the protagonists influenced a spokesman of the Arab Com- share market going again. It don there is his club. In bis manners wero perfect,
mittee-Reuter. plared here rather than of a decision. destiny, keeping his great house, Sho would sometimes appear as based solely upon the merits of choosing his dinner guests, plan- ladies' nights in the mess on the
ring
his social calls.
colonel's arm. There the situation. The matter of Quite early, in his life he say natural suspicion that Daisy had transactions in property dealt with that her officiousness, her matri- not been too hostile to the atten- during the Japanese occupation is archy were designed for his pro- tions of the correct young officers a little more difficult. But here so sweetly, rat so firmly, all the town
tection. It was she who handled of the Wehrmacht, who had left again the answer is that ample hordes of legzy young worden of months before.
in a hurry, not so many. time has been afforded for a good family who had been set ut I liked Daisy, She Wo! thorough examination of the pro-him by their mamas, blems involved: Procrastination It
It was Д game. If auch a will neither simplify them nor young woman broke through his make the final legal decisions any after dinner in the rose garden, mother's guard and caught him easier. Much the same, applies then she was entitled to use to the general moratorium. It guilo to force him. to propose to would have been unfortunate. to her. say the least, in the early days of she won she became mistres the re-occupation to have tangled driving his mother to the dower of his hall and his model villages, up the debts of 1941 with the house and him to his London olub. efforts of commercial enterprises It was a stave danger. to get on their feet again. But For 40 years and more he and most firms have since had time to bat this monaco to their posca and his mother had conspired to com- sort, themselves out and ascertain,
privacy.
And for 40 years they where they stand today. What had succeeded. precisely the Colonial Oilçe has
proper.
•
hints of over-caution somewhere village his mother directs hie about wine and she know the decisions in this vital affair.
If
"
was
Rolf,
friendly and simple and honest, and she know about wine. The captain kent on staring at her. 1
of him there.
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It was some months later that learned how cruelly fate had treated him. ́ ́ It was," I am afraid, partly his own fault, but he will He had committed the single sin never como to are it that way. of forgetting his mother's advies. He had proposed.
Wearing his innocence
like a offered his hand, his heart, his sacred, knightly shield he had
land, his manor, the dreaming cows and creaping pensioners, his wonderful wine cellar and all the
bebed
And abe 'had refused him! Know-
in mind with regard to Debtor. I never saw the captain unrest of It-to Daisy, Creditor Relationships remains a happy in battle. All it did to After all, the years, of struggle top secret, and until a pronounce more concerned for the welfare sacred bachalorhood.
him was to make him more," and his mother had devoted to, hin ment has been made, obviously of others becano fusspot fallen. He had fallen for Daley. the moratorium cannot be lifted | la a flaktit in its entirety. But as Ma Lo Toward emphasised, nothing that is likely hundreds of to be devised- will be perfect în
laboure allt ft" parth."
are bound taik is
Sbhard
VE Day when the ine
the ing nothing. of his ostatos. aho-had. thousands of slavo spurned him
stopout by us, "That is what I heard Brestward Homeless, tothed the story foDENT
becaine, It was the captaja himself who
dly depfcased.
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