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AS expected by most of the
the first great blow of their now
by
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DOUGLAS WOODRUFF
richer by striking lightning at home, but it is one in which military blows.
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THE Italians, in the opinion of
those well placed to Judge, are strikingly deficient in war material for a long war-and by long is meant more than six months.
The Duce is not likely to titles and decorations are more gamble everything on the Ger- abundant than lire. The salaries mane not merely winning but. are small, and sometimes they winning very quickly this sum-
are added to by unauthorised mer.
But the German argument un-
offensive against the French and when you ask why if the IN the North they think of war not against the British Isles. public opinion is so definite as a matter for armies, in means. Although they have advanced to it is also ineffective, Italians the South as a matter of navies. To these young Fascists the doubtedly has weight that, for the assault along the entire front always tell you sadly that in The sense of being shut in in prospect of war is the prospect good or ill, Italy has cast in her from Abbeville on the coast to some other part of the pen- and France is more alive at home and overseas.
the Mediterranean by Britain of promotion, of commands at lot with Germany, and if Ger- But it is many is allowed to succumb Amiens, along the Somme-Aisne insula there is more feeling Naples and the other points true that even inside the party the victors and will have to set- Italy will get short shift from front through Amiens and La fin favour of war.
upon which the Italian deet is and its younger ranks an ele- tie down to an indefinite life of Fere, with their right wing
ment of apprehension mingles In the North they say that based. operating in the vicinity of the South holds the people who There is much confidence in with the fascination of Nazi Patronage and servitude be- cause her lendors-were-not-men- Sedan, it is not to be supposed think of war as naval triumphs the flect, more than in the Army, methods, that_the_offensive which began--and--command of the Mediter- because the fleet is a profes- The Duce, who was a school enough to see and seize the won- sional service, whereas every master before he was a journal- genius of Hitler has created for derful opportunity which, the yesterday discloses the whole of ranean. the German plan. The enemy are In the South they say that the one is in the Army, and men ist, has conducted for a quarter Re
a campaign to known to be prepared for battle on strength of the Fascist regime bold commissions and Gnd auto- of a century
It is, I think, still useful to all sectors and when issue hus has always been in the North, matic promotion after exceed educate the Italians into combat this by making it as plain been finally joined on the front that Milan was its home, that ingly slight military experience. keener sense of public things.
German influence is naturally
He has succeeded in the Inst as we can that we do not think first selected we may
But the feeling for or against attempt to break through with the french feeling also more alive. age.
stronger in North Italy and anti- war is very much a matter of six years, particularly since the German Nazism and Italian mechanised units develop sudden-
Italy is full of men under great crisis, in making them feel Fascism as just the ly ou
I have just come back from forty, so many of whom would that their livelihoods are not lump them under the one iden an entirley different front.
a month spent travelling about have emigrated if the United only small but are much too de of "Fascism." The details so far received are Italy, in six of the main cities, States had not closed the gates choose to think about them.
We should show them in my pendent on what foreigners
opinion, that we know the re- scanty, as is always the case on from Milan and Genoa in the just as they approached young the first day, and the precise object North to Naples and Palermo in manhood. They are all in the stand in their white marble in antipathetic peoples, that Fase- The tablets against sanctions gimes are as different as the two el the German High Command [the South, but spending many country, knowing must still be a matter for spacu-days in Rome.
the smallest Italian towns, but ism is not the expression of a
lation.
hand of the opportunities a more important than that turn people that loves to be discl I found Milan a busy place, earlier But their attack at pre-
generation enjoyed, sent is split into two halves and in which it is difficult to get a knowing in their family budgets to be deduced from it, that. Italy tasks, but is an individual crea- ing-point was the larger moral plined for collective and warlike there is a "dead sector" between room in an hotel, full not mere. the importance of the remit was held in leading-strings be- tion, the violent attempt to rec- the two spearheads, which appear general fear of what the Ger- which
ly of the fear of war but of a tances from the United States cause she was not mistress even tify the ingrained Italian ten-
alliance will man
the see
to bu directed towards Amiens and Soissons. At present it seems Italy. the Germans intend to Junch a direct attack on Paris from these two directions the
mtural corridors to Paris which the Germans followed in 1914 and aguin in 1918,
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had
at second
same, or
now so largely
of the Mediterranean and be- dency to let all Governments go for ceased.
cause Great Britain held both hang and to think no more about The Fascist party appeared the ocean gateways of the inland them than we in England think to provide an alternative career sea.
of the borough council. We -should-make-it-plain-that-we-are-- not out to destroy their regime
them stronger, as they are told..
YOU cannot forget in Milan
that you are in the capital
of a country that has been, like) the Low Countries, one of! the traditional battlefields of
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The Milanese do not want to did be that again nor the scene of their first offensive-against the the striking-victories-of-some Lowlands and France last month.new
Napolcon, German
A movement in both the Amiens French or Italian.
and Soissons areus has been con- fidently expected for the past few
front
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You are reminded also that! days, and our cables from the war overlordship are very much alive. the memories of the Austrian . told of heavy German concentrations behind these two There are plenty of people still objectives. The French leaders living who began life as Aus- express themselves as satisfed trian subjects.
with the results so far attained by When the Milanese read of the defenders and should the the stealthy and ruthless way aluation remain as it was this the Germans had seized Den-. morning there will be
every mark, Norway, Holland
and possible reason for gratification. Belgium, they thought about At the same time I must be Milan. remembered that the Germans
have not hurled in their mechanis-though privately, that the Axis Many Italians argued frankly, ed, strength yet: the real testing time will come when French tanks has high value as a defensive oppose German tanks. The fight-modsure against Germany, bat ing to-day is only sixty-five miles that was before the later de from Paris and mechanised units, velopments of the German doc once they break through, can move trine of "preventive custody." awiftly, as has already buen The North feels the blockade démonstrated in this Blitzkrieg. more than the South and thei We are convinced, as over, that great difficulty of paying for General Woygand will be able to importing war materials. But pounter any menaco that dovolops it is also the home of indus when the Germans do bring their trialists of men with a full anks to the fore. The situation knowledge of the complexities of will almost certainly develop world trado and no simple illu within-the-next 24 hours
|sions: that, people can become!
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THE Dnce is not our friend to-- day, but most of the people have no hard feelings, although they will always prefer their ver sion of their action in Abyssinia and Spain to that of their Eng- lish critics.
But the House of Savoy and the Papacy are highly popular in Italy to-day, and there is good reason for this. They are felt to be forces making for peace and possible centres of further reconstruction if the worat should happen. But just as it is: said that "men are made by their ⠀ enemies," so are regimes, and the strength of the Fascist re- gime has been the uncritical: denunciation of it in the West. If the Italians have the re- sources in themselves to modify: or change it, they will not do so at foreign dietation, but because the forces which can rely on French and British support feel' encouraged to take a - hand. against the forces which are nourished and encouraged from s Germany,EN
For we have had, and we stu have good friends Inside the party as well as the very many
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