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Nazi Intrigue
some
OUT OF THE BLUE
'What Mussolini did
to us.
This is the plain story of Mussolinľa plilless persecu. tion of one Italian family. Yot It exposes the gangster-like mothods ha psed throughout Italy to tighten his grip on u nation.
man. His office was raided and de- stroyed by a Fascist band. His house was guarded day and night by police. Ha travelled secretly from Milan to Turin, and from Turin back to Milan. But the spics always hunted him down
Filippo Turati, his father's great friend, was also shadowed.
HERE is one name which
It became known to friends that daro nobody. In Italy breathe Matteotti. It is the lives of these leading Socialists a name which has haunted were in danger. Their only hope Mussolini ever since that August would be to flee from Italy. day, in 1924, when the Sociallat 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 that freedom-loving Italians, Inside Italy and outside, are living and
After long and careful planning. Claudio Treves was smuggled across the frontier Into Switzerland. Filippo Turati made an adventurous escape by sea-to Corsica.
£1,200 a year to shadow them
"Filippo Turati,"
writes
the
Scarcely a day passes but new evidence is brought to light to the verld-wide ramifications of the Hitler conspiracy against all mon- ir. The latest is to be found in the vast Fifth Column plat which Was being hatched on the soil Uruguay with typleat Nazi treachery and thoroughness. A mass of docu- mentary material vaptured by the police and examined by the Chamber of Deputies is stated to show that the plun was to seize the administra-working for the day when they can author, was sixty-nine years old; tion and to reduce the country to the sintus of A German colony. The Putsch was to be carried through by locally organised Nazls with the aid of reinforcéments from across the Argentine border, and even the pro- ! spective Gauleiter had already been appointed. Strong evidence points to the German Legation being the centre : of the plot and abusing its diplomalle inimunity in order to All the subver sive role which is now the principai business of German Legations every- where.
was
It is not difficult to piece together the brond strategic scheme within which the Uruguayan plot designed to it. Hitler would like, if The could, to turn mast of Europe into
German Protectorate, to
annex most of Africa and many of the British naval bases in the five seas. It is an aim which he will certainly be prevented from achieving. he calculates that if
t were to succeed
But
the moment would shortly be ripe for a grand onslaught on the Western Hemisphere. To this end he must
advanced prepare his
post on American sall, and what more fitting base than the little Southern
Rc- public on the estuary of the River Plate? Uruguay was, in fact, to play a part analogous to that of the tunica in his field tactics which estab- Ish and hold a forward position in the enemy's territory until his main forces are able to follow up and con- solidate. From this advanced post South after another of the American Republies all riddled by his Fifth Column, would be dragged Into the Nazi net.
one
In an interview with an American Journalist a few days ago Hitler pre- tended to laugh off the Fifth Column ns. stupid and, fantastic" and attri buted the whole story to "the imagi nation of propagandists." That was audacious enough aller what all the world knows, on the most irretrag- able testimony, about Norway and
yan revelations, no less so was his declaration
that his policy "Amerien, for the Americans and Europe for the Europeans." It clear for all to see that he is in- America with the |triguing against Am
same unscrupulousness, and perfidy which he employed against the liberties of Europe. Whoever refuses
avenge his crime.
he had given fifty years to Bacialism One of 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 news
of his exile." Maiteotti's fate swept across Italy, His name is Paolo Treves.
Terror after death of
Matteofil
K
Photo's father went to Paris, where he was soon editing the anti- Fascist paper, "La Liberia."
But Paolo, his mother, and his young brother Plero, were still at the mercy of the Fascists.
In What Mussolini Did to Us, They were Mussolini's hostages, published by Gollancz (12s, Od.). Everywhere they were shadowed by he gives an intimate and moving the police. Bochinn, the Himmler account of the reign of terror which of Italy, sent reports on their move-
ments direct to Mussolint himselt. followed the death of Maiteetti.
Paolo Treves estimates that the To Afteen-year-old Paolo the murder was a bitter personal blow. Italian State must bave spent more For he had known Matteotti well. than £1,200 a year on shadowing From the cradle he had lived
Years of pollte persecution were among the great figures of Italian beginning to have their effect on the Bocialism, from the veteran Filippo health and nerves of Bigners Treves and Turati to Carlo Rossell, the bill her two sons.
them.
lant young leader who was mur- In 1928 they made plans to escape. dered in Paris by the Fascists in But it proved Impossible to give the
police the slip.
1937.
Feigned madness
to escape
His own father, Claudio Treves, Was a Member of Parliament and editor of a great Italian newspaper.
From 1924 onwards Mussolini, the
Then, without warning, and without ex-Socialist, waged violent war on
or any charge being made against him. his former comrades. His dictator Paolo was dung 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.
aigned a complimentary letter to Bene Paolo Iroves reveals to us how the detto Croce, the great Liberal philo Fascia terror relentlessly pursued his sopher. family and friends, driving them to He was sentenced to imprisonment prison, exile or death,
on one of the dreaded penni blands. But In doing this he also throws much Paolo outwitted the prison authorities. light on the trials and sufferings which Ho feigned madness, was sent to a ail active Italian Socialists have had to mental hoine, and later released endure since Mussolini seized power. - Freedom was 10w near at tand. Through the intervention of the late Duce invented
Arthur Henderson, Signora Troves waS allowed to join her husband in Paris. Paolo and Piero soon followed,
Neither Paolo or Plers became a He describes how, driven from public permanent exile. They slipped back to life by police aples, agents-provocateurs Italy more than once, took part in and armed Blackshirts, rank-and-file legal activities, and wore imprisoned Socialists were compelled to meet by the Fascists in recctally as 1035.
frame-ups”
secretly at churches and as funerals.
Their father, and Filippo Turati, and He tells us how Mussolini, long before Carlo Rosstill all died in exile. Hider's rise to power, invented "-frame-
THE
RICH MAN
and the
PENSIONER
The Man
Who is
The Voice of Free France
-De Gaulle
times
unknown to the world come to the fore. Such a man is General de Gaulle, the new mili- tary leader, who has now sprung into fame by hfa 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 almply because they could not en- visage a new type of warfare. Hav ing built the famous Maginot Line i which seemed to offer all the security necessary, the French mill- tary leaders remained oblivious to the fact that the present, war de- manded new tactics and new inachinery.
General de Gaulle had this "new mochinery" in mind long before the war started. He wrote a book on the subject of tank warfare, as he recognised that mechanised units would prove the deciding factor in future wars.
But it only now, when France lies trodden underfoot that lits utler- unces carry a real message. It is true Reynaud "discovered" this ob- scure tank expert", and made hlm Under-Secretary for War, but it was too late to save France from the debuele 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.
The General has every claim to receive the respect of his country- |men. Though a comparatively young man-he is in his ftieth year-he has served in the two world wars, Passing out of Saint-Cyr-the school for officers in 1011, the twenty-one year old sous-tleutenant Charles de
by Dudley Barker
MAN get up suddenly Gaulle was posted to the 33rd. In- fantry Regiment: he was wounded at a National Savings near Dinant in August, 1914, but meeting at Ipswich, recovered in time to take part in made his way on to the the desperate fighting around Ver- In March. 1910, he was taken platform and whispered some-dun
prisoner. After the war he was ap- thing to the Mayor.
pointed to the staff of Marshal Petuin, who should have then taken this young man's ability into account. and have called upon him to-day. But for some reason Marshal Petain decided to follow the line which hus thrown France to the wolves,
..
The Mayor.smiled, 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 is also not generally known taking it all in small change. 點 that de Gaulle sent a memorandum. had taken nim 25 years to save up to General Gomelin in January of that £350, and it was all in aliver. this year in which he analysed the In Hove an old woman went up new warfare, condemned the polley, to the local campaign secretary.
of passive defence and foretold the She had only the Old Age Pension,
disaster it would bring about, Gome- -she-sald,—but would he accept alin regarded the memorandum as
contribution of 6d, a week towards
impertinence und threw it into the waste-paper. National Savings?
☆ ☆ ☆
At the other end of the scale is an anonymous Yorkshireman who owned private neroplane. The Air Ministry took it over, and sent him a cheque for £1,200 for it.
He handed the cheque to the 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 Brm in Worcestershire, tor Instance. They used to have n system of penalising a workman for being late-five minutes late and he
for
last 15 minutes' pay. They have scrapped that and substituted a bonus system punctuality. The bonuses are paid into the employcea' National Savings accounts.
Two London firms have urged
BRYC their employees to
paper, which is then sold in bulk, The money turned into National Bavings certificates. for which the employees ballot every week or so.
☆ ☆ ☆
in an
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 armies, General de Gaulle con- tinued:
"Once the front was established from Switzerland to the North Sea we saw, through four years, the strongest armies in the world clesh
in
furious batiles at the, cost of im- mense losses and colossal expendi lure of munitions, without making any appreciable advance over the There was a terrifying. ground disproportion between the losses suf- fered by the nation in arms and the tactical, strategie and political re- sults that system could obtain."
"The fighting motor," restores and multiplies the qualities that have always been the basis of the offen- sive, Acting in three dimensions, moving in each of them faster Ulars any living thing, able to carry great weights of arms or armour, It now occupies a preponderating place in scale of war values and is ready to renew the fading art,
So I could go on, naming town
The Germans have approached a after town, city after city, vilinge
rational conception of war. Thus after villago. In Layton, Essex, the they started the present conflict with berough has set up a savings group attack aquadrons and armoured units of which the local Labour Party whose combined action enabled them leader is secretary, the local Con-to pulverize Poland in. two weeks. servative leader treasurer.
Tied even more strongly to anti- School-children at Morley, York- que idens, we began to war with
essay Ave
million soldiers, but with a mére shire, are competing in
lon, of which the subject is nucleus of aviation and tanks very competition, of National
Bavings,
ags, and for which the insufficient in numbers and in power. Even this modern force was. built, prize is National Savings stamps.
Well-known people of Chatham organised and directed not to strike are touring the streets and the pubs, far, fast and bard, but only to act. giving talks on saving. The cinemas as part of the mass system, display rolls of names of people who Practically speaking, we had only
light Lanks, In the campaign. are helping
South Staffordshire boroughs
"The system of the nation in arms have a savings competition for which by its very nature permits
But these two brave young Italians uns very much like the Relchatng Fires are still in the vanguard of the fight shield, given by the Mayor of Wol-only a striel defensive, could only be When Zamboni, a mad Fascist, nt-
Holland. In the light of the Urugue,tempted to assassinate him, Mukollat against Mussolini. To-day they are our
:
allies denounced the Becialists as " organisers"
Many young Italians," writes Faolo of the outrage. WA5
Troves, "cro anti-Fascist solely because Here is an even more interesting parallel Goering, you remember, at the they are men of honour and feel that to be ur to become Fascist would mean Reichstag Firo Trial, shouted at
renouncing their integrity. It is a con- Dumirov: You wait until I get you viction which is dearly paid for and culalde this court!"
which, brings with it certain reciprocal In 1927, when Carlo Rossell and responsibilities, and certain duties on other Italian Socialists were being tried the part of free countries to those that.
oficial" Bucarelli, ́ ́ showed a "almilar contempt for the law,
to: acknowledge: this `simple truth for a political,offence, the Fascist are 'onalaved.hony Da
merely putting his hand in the sand. Fortunately the whole world has now had ample warning, and America, the last refuge of freedom outside the British Empire, is fast drawing the inescapable conclusion.
"These young Italians who are look "These gentleman in the box, and in to France, to England and to America sa really fraternal natione others, too. he bawled. will have to should count for something in the reckon with me afterwards!”
balance of the world." "O
K. Fairfax
From the time of the Matteotti mur der, Paolo Traves' father was a marked
verhampton to the borough with the Justified by the theory of a peaceful highest savings per head of popu- Franco, whose sole wito y, provided
lation each month.
to
her territory. protect we took no interest in what happened to the rest of the world we might Already the special week has pro-conceivably have been content to stand on our fortifications:. By adopt- duced grand results, and its effecting once for all a strategy consisting will accumulate. for several weeks.
in receiving frontiers for *a“ time, But the idea behind the special Even so, this result would have been week was to draw attention to the precarious campaign, which must not stop
there. The nation Decis the If the enemy has not already money. As Ernest Bevin said, the formed a mechanical force suf- must have, the money. Oficient to break our defence nation
From now on, every' week in A
apoolat National Bavings Wock Turn to Page=7, Fifth Column