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MUSSOLINI'S SPEECH TO N.G.C.
Comprehensive Review of European
The applause which greeted the touches the million; Paris from reading of my resolution last even- 560,000 at the time ΟΙ the ing made me ask myself this French revolution also proceeds morning whether it was worth towards the million. The same! while to make a speech illustrating can be said of London and the a document which has already. Transatlantic cities. During this been grasped by your minds, has first period of capitalism selection interpreted your convictions, and really works. There are also, wars. touched your revolutionary sensi- Those wars cannot be compared bility.
to the world war we have lived. It may nevertheless be interest- They are short-wars. The Italian ing to know what line of medita-one of 1848-49 lasts months the tion and thought led me to the first year and 4 days the second formulation of the resolution pre-that of 1859 lasts a few weeks. The sented yesterday evening.
same holds good of the war of But Arst of all I wish to con- 1886. Nor are the Prussian wars gratulate this Assembly and to ex-of longer duration. That of 1864 ress my satisfaction with" the against the Danish Dutchles lasts
tes held here.
a few days, that of 1866 against Only deficients could be surprised Austria. A continuation of the that divergent views have arisen former one last a few days and and shades of opinion have ap-closes at Sadova Even that of peared. This is inevitable, I should "say necessary;
Harmony is harmony; discord is another thing.
1870, which has the tragic days of Sedan, does not last more than two seasons.
In 1904 the rolling mills formed. an internatiorial cartel. The inc syndicate started in 1899.
I will spare you a tedious Est of all the chemical, textile, shipping and other syndicates organised in that period of history.
nitrate
The British-Chilenian syndicate started in 1899.
I have here a complete 1st of national and international trusts which I will spare you. It is safe to say that there is no sector of the economic life of the countries of Europe and America in which these characteristic manifestations of capitalism are not found.
But what is the consequence? The end of free competition. the margins were reduced, capita- listic enterprise considered that, it was better to come to an under- 'standing rather than fight, to form alliances, to amalgamate, to divide up the markets and distribute the profits.
As
Even the law of supply and de- mand is no longer a dogma, for it is possible through cartels and trusts to act both on demand. and supply: at last this coalesced, trustifled, capitalisic economy
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You will remember that on the 18th of November of Year X, in the presence of the thousands of Fas- cist party officials
Those wars, I would almost say: Moreover, in discussing a pro- stimulate in a certain sense the blem as delicate as the one before economic activities of the nations, us, it is perfectly logical and in-so much so that barely eight years evitable that each should bring later, in 1878, France is once more to it, not only his doctrinal pre-on her feet, and can organise the paration, not only his state of world' exhibition, an event which
perament.
We will not call what was going The most abstract of philosoph-on, in America heroic. That word ers, "the most transcendent of should be reserved exclusively for metaphysicians, cannot entirely events of a military nature; but disregard or set aside his personal undoubtedly the conquest of the temperament, what ever it may be. Far West was hard and adventur- ous, and had its riska and its vie. tims like a great conquest.
This dynamic period of capital asembled inism begins with the advent of the tion in Piazza Venezia, I asked: is cutting of the isthmus of Suez. Rome for the decennial celebra-steam-engine and closes with the
this crisis, which has held us in It is a period of forty years. Its grip for the past four years-During those forty years the State we have now entered on the first looks on, is Inactive, and the month of the fifth year-a- crisis theorista of liberalism say! you, within the system or of the sys-state, have but one duty, that of tem?
acting in such wise that your existence is not even perceived, in the economic sector. You will govern all the more successfully To-day I can answer
it: the the less you concern yourself with crisis has penetrated so deeply problems of an economic nature. into the system that it has beEconomic activities in all their come a crisis of the system,
manifestations are therefore limit-
A grave question, a question to which it was hot then possible to give an immediate reply.
It is no longer an injury, itised only by the penal code and the
1870 this" period
a constitutional disease..
commercial code
We no longer have the struggle for life, free competition, the selec tion of the fittest.
We can now assert that the But after capitalistic mode of production changes. has been superceded, and with, it the theory of economic liberalism which illustrated and defended it
I wish to trace for you, in its main lines, the history of capita- liam in the past century, which can be defined as the century of The era of cartels, syndicates, capitalism. But first of all, what consortia, trusts, opens, I shall [2160 ls capitalism? Capitalism must certainly not pause for you to note
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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOTD.
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We can note the first symptoms or fatigue and of deviation in the capitalistic world.
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Free trade, which is only a wider Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie discharged into Holt'a aspect of the doctrine of econo-at Consignees risk and subject to mic liberalisin, free trade receives Terms and Conditions of Storage at a death blow. Indeed the first na- Holt's Wharf, The Cargo will be tion to raise almost impassable ready for Delivery, from Godown on barriers was America."And now and after 8th January. for some. years England herself. has rejected all that which seem- ed until now traditional in her political, economic, and moral·life, and has taken to protection of an increasingly pronounced kind.
Why Europe is no longer at the Head of Civilisation: There is a European, a typically European crisis.
Europe is no longer the contin- ent which guides civilisation.
This is the dramatic fact which those whose duty
it is to think must recognise and point out to others.
There was a time when Europe dominated the world politically,
spiritually, economically.
Politically through her political institutions.
European spirit has produced down Spiritually through all that the
the ages.
Economically, because it was the only highly industralised contin-
ent.
But beyond the Atlantic a great industrial and capitalistic business
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All Claims against the Steamer must presented to the Undersigned on or before the 26th, January or they will not be recognized.
To comply with the General Bonded Warehouse Regulations, consignees must. have a Revenue Officer in attendance when damaged dutiable goods me examined.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be loft in the Godowa, where they will be examined on the 11t Jan, at 10 am, by Meara, Goddard No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersignad GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co. Ltd.
Agents. Hong Kong, 4th Jan., 1994, [2145
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[2158
Welcome Reduction In Dues
by
THE BIG FIVE Show A Bigger Aggregate Profit For 1933
London, Jan. 10.
All the leading British Banks
London, Jan. 10. The Suez Canal Company an- world has grown up. In the Far nounce a reduction from April of differences existing between East Japan, after coming into dues on ships passing through the
touch with 'Europe during the war Canal Dues on ships with cargo constituting what are known as of 1005, is advancing by rapid will be reduced by 25 cents (gold) the "Big Five" have now declared stages towards the West,
per net register ton, Suez Canal the results for the past, year and measurement, and on ships pass- In every case the dividends have
not be confounded with the bour- the geoisie. The bourgeoisie is quite these four institutions. another thing. The bourgeoisie is a mode of being which can be great or petty, heroic or philistine, Capitalism, on the other hand, is a specific mode of production, & mode of industrial production.
The differences are inconsider able, or almost so:
its
Here the problem is a political
one,
They are like those between rates and taxes.
Economists have not yet defined
Let us talk of politics, for this through in ballast by 121 cents been maintained at the rates paid
(gold). The new rates will thus for 1932. But the tax-payer who has Assembly is also exquisitely pou-be 5.75 Francs" (gold)
• Three of the Banks show a mo- on ships When capitalism attains to meet them, finds it quite futile tical Europe can still try to re-with
cargo and 2.874. Francs derate increase in the profits as highest expression it is a mode of to discuss the matter as whether world civilisation if she can find (gold) on ships in ballast.
sume her place at the helm of
two have a slight reduction, but mass production for mass con- they be rates or be taxes, they
At the last general meeting of in the aggregate, profits' as.com- sumption, financed in mass must be payed... through the national and interna Economile Liberalism and Customs
the Company in June, the hope pared with the previous year, in- was' expressed tional
by the chairman creased from £8.232,157 to £8,378,- issue of folat stock capital. Capitalism is therefore
that the economic situation would: 728 It is not true, as an Italian
able a reducton of dues. A month industrial and has not had mani-
When the low money rates dur soon improve, sumciently to en-
ing the greater part of last year testations of much importance in sanomy has said, that trustinecf great injustices are first repaired. ago Sir Alan Anderson, who is a are considered, the results the field of agriculture
British Commercial Director of the generally regarded in the market Company, reported an improve-as very good. ment in the Canals traffic.
One compensating factor for low. For the first eleven months of money rates was the decreased 1933, the amount. he said, exceed-provision against bad debts-Bri-. ed that of 1932 by. 8 per cent. and tish Wireless,"
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Consignees are further notified that the Steamer "LAHN has taken at HAMBURG And BREMEN Through I would mark three periods in Cargo for HONG KONG 8.B. the history of capitalism: the "STAR" and 8.8. OPTMA" from dynamic period, the static period, WIBORG and RAUMO and the period of decline.
All Goods remaining undelivered as The dynamic period is that go- the 15th of Jen., 1984, will be absting from 1830 to 1870.
Perloda of Capitalism.
Protection.
cartellised, syndicated economy is. a consequence of the war. No the first coal cartel arose in Ger- many, Dortmund, in 1819.-
in 1905, ten years before the world war broke out, there were 62 metal cartels in Germany.
Meantime the
as an encouraging belief that world
Paris, January 9.
are
a minimum of political unity. adhered to should be followed.
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Consignoce must have a Berense competition and the struggle of In France in 1877 the industrial wards considered, anatomised seeing for traffe between countries It comprises the Soviet's under-
tioned, turn out to be absurd. Officer in attendance when damaged all against all can have full play office of Longwy was opened to What other diplomatic deeds are which normally passes through taking to purchase over 250,000,000 entres, etc..
dutiable goods are examined by the Some fall by the way, others die, deal with the metal industry, in there which could restore contact this waterway British Wireless franes worth of French goods is Company's surveyors.
and the Red Cross picks them up. 1888 another was opened, to deal between the Governments?h
1934 The credits for the pur- when at home, they will Bo Claim will be admitted after the This period also has its depressions with petroleum, in 1881 all the in- Locarno? Locarno is a different WHISKY PORK PROPOSAL Franco-Soviet Trade Burest.
cbases will be controlled by a Goods have left the Godown And all but they are cyclical depressions, surance companies had coalesced matter. Locarno has nothing to f call or telephone to the above Claims must be presented within Tw neither long nor universal Capi- The Austrian iron cartel is of do with disarmament. The way
they will receive the wok of the ship's striver born; af fallsm still has such vitality and 1973: by the side of the national, date they will not be recognised such power of recovery that it can international cartels grow up. The assistance and the Consignor and quote to dermed get over them brilliantly. It is the glass bottle syndicate dates back
their
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develops, Berlin which had gether French, English, Austrian NOREDEVTadusz Lizard, BeXMIN hundred thousand inhabitants at and Italian manufacturers, is of Their disposal.
Hong Kong, 5th Jan., 1984,
Tate the
beginning of the century | 1909,
which
London, January 9,
The Soviets will export oll timber and manganese to France,
out does not. He that ways The United States proposal to Reuter
or late a great silence surrounds double the British whisky quota the Four Power Pact None men in return for an increase from 63 tion it but all think of it per cent to 7.8 per cent in Government departments British
For this reason we do not intend American pork products admitted Wireless Service, k to resume initiatives or to hurry up to the British markets, has been (A Washington message the stages of a situation which received fri London and is being Tuesday stated that the US pro munt logically "and fatally ripen. considered by the appropriate peral, has been accepted);