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Nazi Intrigue
some
Senrrely a day posses but new evidence is brought to light to the world-wide rumifleations of the Hitler conspiracy against
llman- kind. The latest is to be found in the vast Fifth Column plot which was being hatched
on the soll of
Uruguay with typleat Nazi treachery
OUT OF THE BLUE
"What
Mussolini did
to
us.
This is the plain story of Mussolini's piiloss porsocu. flon of one Italian family, Yot It exposes the gangster-liko moliods he used throughout Italy to tighten his grip on a
nation.
HERE is one name which nobody in Italy
daro breathe-Matteotti. It is A name which has haunted Mussolini ever since. that August day, in 1924, when the Socialist leader's mutilated corpse was
found buried in the mud of the Italian countryside.
For all Italy knew and still knows that Mussolini was the murderer. And Mussolini knows
man. His office was ralded and de- stroyed by n Fascist band. His house was guarded day and night"by police.
He travelled secretly from Milan to Turin, and from Turin back to Milan. But the spies always hunted him down
Flippo Turatt, 11s father's great friend, was also shadowed,
It became known to friends that the lives of these leading Socialista were in danger. Their only hope would be to flee from Italy.
After long and careful planning, Claudio Treves was smuggled across the
Into frontier
Switzerland.
Filippo Turati made an adventurous
escape by sea-to Corsica.
£1.200 a year to
shadow them
exile."
the
Italy and outside, are living and Filippo Turati," writes working for the day when they can author, was sixty-nine years old; avenge his crime.
he had given fifty years to Socialism One ΟΙ these freedom-loving and to Italy, and he arrived like Italians was a fifteen-year-old that, like a criminal, in the land of schoolboy when the
of his news Malteatti's fate swept across Italy. His name is Paolo Treves.
Terror after death of Matteotti
and thoroughness. A mass of docu- Įmentary material captured by the _police_und_cxamined_by_the_Chamber_that freedom-loving Italiana, inside
of Deputies is stated to show that the plan was to seize the administra- tion and to reduce the enuntry to the status of R German colony. The Putsch was to be carried through by locally organised Nazis with the ald of reinforcements from across the Argentine border, and even the pro- spective Gauleiter had already been appointed. Strong evidence points to the German Legution being the centre of the plot and abusing its diplomatic immunity in order to All the subver- sive role which is now the principal business of German Legations every- where.
I
to
Paolo's father went to Paris. where he was soon editing the anti-. Fascist paper. “La Libertâ,"
But Paolo, his mother, and his brother Piero, were still at young the mercy of the Fascista,
Bochinni, the Himmler
In What Mussolint Did Us, They were Mussolint's hostages, published by Gollancz (12s, Gd.). Everywhere they were shadowed by he gives an intimate and moving the police. account of the reign of terror which followed the death of Muticofti.
His own father, Claudio Treves, was a Member of Parliament and editor of a great Italian newspaper.
From 1924 onwards Mussolini, the ex-Socialist, waged violent war on
of Italy, sent reports on their move- ments direct to Mussolini himself.
Paolo Treves estimates that the allen State must have spent more than £1,200 a year on shadowing
them.
Feigned madness
to escape
To Biteen-year-old Patlo the It is not difficult to plece together murder was a bitter personal blow. the broad strategie scheme
For he had known Matteotti well, within which the Uruguayan
From the cradle he had lived plot was
Years of police persecution were among the great figures of Italian beginning to have their effect on the resigned to At. Hitler would like, I he could, to turn most of Europe into
Socialism, from the veteran Filippo health and nerves of Signora Treves and Gerinan Protectorate, to
Turati to Carlo Rossell, the bril her two sons. annex most of Africa and
In 1920 they made plans to escape. the many of
Hant young leader who was mur- British naval bases in the five seas. dered in Paris by the Faselsts in But it proved impossible to give the
police the slip. is on him which he well certainly
1037. be prevented from achieving. But he calculates that if it were to suecced the moment would shortly be ripe for a grand onslaught on the Western Hemisphere. To this end he must prepare his nvnnerd post American soll, and what more fitting base than the little Southern_Re- public on the estuary of the River Plate? Uruguay
was, in fact, to play a part analogous to that of the tunks in his field factles which estab- Itsh and hold a forward position in the enemy's territory until his main forces are able to fallow up and con- solkiate.
From his advanced post one after another of the South American
on
his Fifth Colull riddled by
into the Nazi net.
as
whole
would be dragged
In an interview with an Americon journalist a few days ago Hitler pre- tended to laugh off the Fifth Colum
stupid and fantastle" and attel- buted the
story to "the Imagi nation of propagandists."
"That was audacious enough after what all the world knows, on the most irrefrag- able testimony, about Norway and Holland. In the light of the Urugus- yan reve
revelations, no less so, was his declaration that his policy was "America for the Americans and is Europe for the Europeans." It clear for all to see that he is in- triguing against America with the same unscrupulousness and perfidy employed against the liberties of Europe. Whoover refuses to acknowledge this simple truth is merely putting his head in the sand. Fortunately the whole world has now America, had ample warning, and
which he
the last refuge of freedom outside the British Empiro, is fast drawing the. Inescapable" conclusion.
Then, without warning, and without his former comrades. His dictatory charge being made against him. Paolo was flung into jail. After many ship had almost toppled because of days of solitary confinement in a his complicity in the Matteott! narrow cell, he was accused of having crime,
signed a complimentary letter to Bene Paolo Treves reveals to us how the detto Croce, the great Liberal philo. Fascist terror relentlessly pursued his sopher. family and friends, driving them to ilo was sentenced to imprisonment prison. cxile or death,
on one of the dreaded penal istands But In doing this he also throws much Paolo outwitted the prison authorities. light on the trials and sufferings which He reigned madness, was sent to a all active Italian Socialists have had to mental home, and later released. endure sinco Mussolini seized power,
Duce invented
frame-ups
Freedom was now near at hand. Through tha`intervention of the Into Artur Henderson. Signora Treves WAS allowed to join her husband in Paris. Padio and Piero soon followed.
Neither Paolo nor Piero became a He describes now, driven from public permanent exile. They silpped back to life by police sples, agents-provocateurs Italy more than once, took part in and armed Blackshirts, rank-and-file legal activities, and were imprisoned Socialists were compelled to meet by the Fascists as recently as 1935. secretly at churches and at funerals.
Their father, and Filippo Turati, and He tells us how Mussolini, long before Carlo Rosselli all died in exile. Hitler's rise to power, invented "frame. But these two brave young Itailans ups "very much like the Reichstag Fire are still in the vanguard of the fight When Zamboni, a mad Fascist. at against Mussollal. To-day they are our tempted to assassinate him, Mussolini allica. denounced the Socialists as “ organisera"
"Many young Italians," writes Paolo of the outrage.
Troven "ro anti-Fascist solely because Here is an even mors interesting they are men of honour and feel that to parallel. Goering, you remember, at the be or to become Fascist would mean Reichstag Fire Trial shouted at
renouncing their Integrity. It is a con- Dimitrov: You walk, until
get you viction which is dearly paid for and outside tila court!"
In 1927, when Carlo Rossell and which brings with it certain reciprocal responsibilites, and certain duties on ollier Hallan Socialists were being tried the part of free countries to those that for. A politica) offence, the Fascist
are enslaved. official, Bucarelli, shawed A similar contempt for the law.
These young Italians who are look- These gentlemen' In the box, and ing to France, to England and to Americs As really fraternal nations others, too." be bawled, will have, to should count for something in the rockon with me efterwardsi",
bale of the world." _From_the_time of the Mafieolti mur- der, Paolo Treves' father, was a marked
K. Fairfax
THE
RICH MAN
and the
PENSIONER
The Man
Who is
The Voice of Free France
MARA
-De Gaulle
DURING times of eriala men
unknown to the world coma to the fore. Such a man is General de Gaulle, the new mill-p tary leader, who has now sprung into fame by his courageous efforts to rally all Frenchmen outside the control of the Petain Government to the cause of freedom.
General de Gaulle remained un- discovered by his military leaders simply because they could not en- visage a new type of warfare. Hav- Ing bulit the famous Maginot Line which Deemed to offer oll the security necessary, the French mill- tary lenders remained oblivious to the fact that the present war de-* nunded row tactics and TIDIV machinery.
General de Gaulle had this "new machinery" in mind long before the war storied. He wrote a book on the subject of tank warfare, as he recognised that mechanised unlis would prove the deciding factor in future warss
But it is only now when France les trodden underfoot that his utter- unces carry a real message. It is true Reynuud "discovered" this où- scure tank expert", and made him Under-Secretary for War, but it was too late to save France from the debacle in which she now finds her- self.
It is, however, not too late to continue the fight for France's freedom and this is the task- General de Gaulle has set him- self.
by Dudley Barker
MAN got up suddenly fantry Regiment; he
-
The General has every claim to receive the respect of his country- men. Though a comparatively young mun-he is in his iftieth year-he has served in the two world wars. Passing out of
of Saint-Cyr-the
school for officers-In 1911, the twenty-one your old sous-lieutenant Charles de Gaulle
was posted to the 33rd.
was wounded at a National Savings near Dinant In August, 1914, but in inseting at Ipswich, recovered in time to take part made his way on to the the desperate fighting around Ver- platform and whispered some-dun. In March, 1910, he was taken prisoner. After the war he was up- thing to the Mayor.
pointed to the staff of Marshal Petain, who should have then taken this young man's ability into account and have called upon him to-day, But for some reason Morshol Petain decided to follow the line which is thrown France to the wolves.
The Mayor smilled, and stood up to announce that the man had offered £350 to the Govern- ment, free of interest for the duration.
He was anxious to know, how- ever, if the Government would mind It taking it all in small change. had taken him 25 years to save up tint £350, and it was all in silver.
In Hove an old woman went up to the local campaign secrciary. She had only the Old Age Pension, -slie - sald,—but-would-be-accept-a- contribution of 6d. a week towards National Savings?
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It is also not generally known that de Gaulle sent a memorandum to Ceneral Gamelin in January of this year in which he analysed the new warfare, condemned the polley of passive defence and foretold the disaster it would bring about. Game- in regarded the memorandum as an impertinence and threw it into the waste-paper.
Pointing out in his book, written in January last, that the events of the war of 1914 to 1918 foreshadowed the im- potence of the system of massed
At the other end of the scale is an anonymous Yorkshireman who owned a private neroplane. The Air Ministry took it over, and sent him a cheque for £1,200 for it.
He handed the cheque to themies, General de Gaulle cont Government, saying he wanted no interest while the war lasted.
During the week, Indeed, Leeds reported the offers of two individual contributions of £10,000 each, and
two of £1,000.
Let me commend the action of one arm in Worcestershire. for Instance.
used to have a They system of penalising a workman for being late-five minutes late and he lost 15 minutes' pay. They have scrapped that and substituted a bonus system for punctuality. The bonuses are paid into the employees National Savings accounts.
Two London Arms have urged their
employees to save paper, which is then sold in bulk. The money is turned into National Savings certificates, for which the employees ballot every week or so.
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So I could go on, naming town after town. elty after city, village after village. In Leyton, Essex, the borough has set up a savings group of which the local Labour Party leader is secretary, the local Con- servative leader treasurer,
School-children at Morley, York- shire, are competing in an essay competition, of which the subject is National Savings, and for which the prize
tinned:
"Once the front was established - from Switzerland to the North Sen we saw, through four years, the strongest armies in the world clash in furious battles at the cost of Im-
mense losses and colossal expende &
ture of munitions, without any appreciable advance over the There was ព lerrifying. disproportion between the losses suf- fered by the nation in orms and the tactical, strategic and political re- sults that system could obtain."
"The Bighting motor." restores and multiplies the qualities that have always been the basis of the offen- sive, Acting a three dimensions, moving in each of them faster than any living thing, able to carry great weights of arms or armour, it now occupies a preponderating place in scule of war values and is ready to renew the fading art ."
"The Germans have approached a rational conception of war. Thus they started the present conflict with attack squadrons and armoured units whose combined aetion enabled them. to
Pulverise Poland in two weeks,
even more strongly, to ant que klens, we began to war with five million soldiers, but with a mere nucleus of aviation and tanks very Insufficient in numbers and in power. Even this modern force was built, organised and directed not to strike far, fast and bard, but only to net a part of the mass system. Practically speaking, we had only light "tanks.
le National Savings stamps. Well-known people of Chatham are touring the streets and the pubs, giving talks on eaving. The cinemas display rolls of names of people who are helping in the campolgu.
Bouth Staffordshire boroughs
"The system of the nation in armis have a savings competition for
which by its very nature permits. shield, given by the Mayor of Wol- only a strict defensive, could only be verhampton to the borough with the | junillled by the theory of a pesceful highest savings per head of popu- France, whose sole war problem was Intion each month,
to protect her territory. Provided.
world to the rest of tha conceivably have been content lo Already the special week has pro-
stand on our fortiications. By adopt duced grand results, and its offecting once for all a strategy consisting will accumulate for several weeks.
in receiving frontiers for a time. But the idea behind the spacial Even so, this result would have been weak was to draw attention to the precarious. campaign, which must not stop there. The nation needs
the money. As Ernest Bavin said, the nailon must have the money. () From now on, every week is special National Savings Week,
we took no interest in what hapright.
we
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