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What Every Woman Should Know. Bukarest, that capital of opera-

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1932.

MARCH

TO ROME

HOW IL DUCE RULES

THE NATION.

bouffe, where the common-place a POVERTY CAREFULLY CONCEALED

abnormal and the abnormal common-

place, has just provided the world with a new laugh.

(By PEMBROKE STEPHENS)

An enterprising, publisher, has just been tried in the 'Rumanian'

The key to Fascism is to be found more serious than studied indiffer- courts on a charge of selling goods in the Italian home. That is my once to Fascism. In most districts under false pretences. He ad-

it is necessary to belong to the vertised very widely a new book conclusion after a tour of Italy In Fascist party to secure work, to pay entitled: "What Every Young Girl search of the secret of Mussolini's at least lip service to Mussolini is Should Know Before Marriage,"success-a tour that has taken ma to order to live. and sold over half-a-million coples. Industrial centres such as Milan and On the whole the Italian popula- Buyers of the book sued him be-Genoa, Turin an Naples, to tourist tion is enthusiastically behind its cause, on receiving it, they found it!

leader, grateful to him for public jcentres such Como and Capri, enterprise giving work to the un- contained nothing but a cooking

Ravello and Rome. manual.

employed, but hating his corrupt The publisher won his case, the Fasciam, unlike Communism, its followers and the care-free, wine- judge deciding that the words were rivalin successful revolution, bases commandeering manner of the mili a fair description of the contents its appeal on domestic happiness. Dictatorship do not irk men of tlamen. The disadvantages of and that cooking was almost the

should know before marriage.

Your Daily Smile.

most important thing a young girl By emphasising the importance of lower intelligence. It does not woman's place in the family, by pro weary a labourer to find three pages viding work even for the unemploy-out of four devoted to praise of ed, by the settlement of the Vatican Duce in his evening newspaper. dispute, Mussolini has left the three There is always the fourth devoted great pillars of Christian society, to sport. Sport journalism is of the family, the, church and labour, recent growth in Italy, the sporting It where he found them, strengthening page fanning Fascism's passionate fa understood Mussolini intends to them, maybe, to build the State faith in physical health and games, take their placea

WHAT A MANI

Italy is to scrap ten warships.

Cts.

Each.

Aan't It Queer?

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Originality's the Thing

a

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house of Fascism for the nation over as the political pages drive home this firm foundation, with the result the moral of success. Cultured that political opponents have one people find these admonitione tire- However hard a man fights consolation denied them in Russia, some and have learnt to be very court action it is always the lawy-the comfort and security of home. careful when talking to strangers, ers who do the charging.

Effect of the Crista. - lor even to acquaintances Previous to my tour of Italy friends. toured Central Europe to study No Tramps-Oficially, In Manchester a lost will was

Fascist foreign policy in Viennā, It is unwise-if you are an artist discovered in a secret drawer of

Budapent and the Balkans, It-to paint tramps in Italy. Official an old desk. Here's a chance. for

seemed to me that the influence of ly thero' are no tramps and beggars" one of our playwrights to write an Fascism abroad had waned.

It is a fact that I was not once original drama round the Incident.

The crisis emptied Government pestered for alms-but poverty in coffers with such rapidity that no time of crisis cannot be banished "Stuck up, my dear, I should say money was left for pushing extra-altogether from the streets. There Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 1932. same. Many of the South she is. She tells every one her vagant schemes, and while the pea- fore, it must be concealed. English American republics have paper house is full of period furniture santa of Hungary were sending and American artists in Venice Constitutions that seem to because she bought it on the In-books filled with 2,000,000 signa- have been warned by the police; in tures to Mussolini in token of hom one case an artist was expelled for age, War Minister. Gombos, the new painting picturesque vagabonds with pro-Slav Premier of Hungary, was the pigeons in the square of Saint in-turning his eyes towards Jugoslavia, Mark's. Relate a funny story about into Mussolini's inveterate foe. Official "Mr. Smith," the English residents

Hungary has no illusions about Italy pseudonym for Mussolini, and you in time of war, painful memories may find yourself in gnol.

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body. democracy at its zenith stalment plan." But in practice, how great the falling off! Nor is there a-na- tion in existence which finds all

certain taila, the whole intention of

To-day's Prize Misprint,

"The engineer was seriously

From every recurrence

of its provisions workable, all its jured as a result of coming such an event as the periodical safeguards effective. Is there contact with a live wife." election of a President for the any "House of Revision" that

of 1915 remaining branded in every The general Impression I gained Facts You Did Not.

mind... United States there arise, in has never been invaded by party.

in Italy was-even 80 slightly addition to the merely local and prejudice? Nay, beyond all-de-

Know.

Further south Italy has been more disappointing, not in regard to topical considerations,

successful, maintaining her hold on Fascism, which seemed to me admir- reflections of a more general democracy is continually defeat After 26 years of study a French Albania, her connection with Bul-able in scope and effect, but in re- character. It is inevitable, for ed, in ways little foreseen by the artist has rediscovered the secret of garla, her new interest in Turkey gard to the character of the people example, that at such times the makers of its most eminent text, the colours used by the old masters and, to a lesser extent, Greece. which Mussolini has not yet succeed- amazing complexities which Re-books, through the fickleness centuries ago by grinding various Generally speaking, Mussolini's ed. In moulding into the requisite publicanism is capable of ad- and fncapacity of the populace paint ingredients and mixing them foreign policy, while apparently shape. Dolce far micute, to-morrow mifting should present them-itself. How can anyone square with off in the proper proportion. aggressive, is actually defensive. It will do, remains the key to bureau- selves in a somewhat unattrac-the theoretical assumption that

is aimed at checking the power of cratic Italy. When in Rome-walt. tive light to those many people "the sovereign people will de A new automatic fire alarm con-France so that when at last he comes Officials will not trouble to answer who find the methods of a con- cide" this, that, and every ques- sists of a short section of copper to terms with France as he intends the simplest questions. They move. stitutional monarchy simpler and tion,, with the fact, increasingly tubing, Alled with an explosive com- to do when he is strong enough-Journalists on from department to more satisfactory. There Is, apparent, that the likelihood is position and sealed at the ends, he may secure the utmost conces department hoping that another will however, a matter of still wider now of either a succession of heat exploding the device with sion by deceiving his powerful rival deal with the tiresome fellow so indeed, of universal applica complete electoral deadlocks or sounds loud enough to awaken a in regard to Italy's very limited that they can return to their own

strength. tion, which carries its lesson into else of pendulum swings that sleeping person.

personal work. Quiet, Bilent People.

·Battle With Time. all human systems alike. For suggest. no constructive direc-

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in every such system it is the tion, but only a blind desire for The Netherlands having fewer In Italy I found the people sur- It took me four days to secure the human element which, having [change? Little wonder, per motion picture theatres in propor-prisingly quiet and silent. Musso- simplest Information in regard to G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD. apparently brought its machinery haps, that the cynical Pope tion to population than most other lini seems to have brought a certain the rebuilding of Rome, surely the to the point of perfection, is it penned his well-known line: "For European countries, an international seriousness into the Italian char-most staggering success of Fascism, self invariably the first to break forms of government let fools exhibition was held recently in seter. The people are less excitable one of which the nation's Press down. In railway accidents contest." The moral of experi-Amsterdam to promiota production than they were ten years ago, while agents should be proud to talk. No man is the factor that fails more ence and observation drives us of sound Alms. often, than his machine. And so back to main causes and old

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an Anglo-Saxon phlegm pervades Italian told me of the great exhibi- the men of the militia, the arbiteration of Tasclam where 30,000 -books in popular disputes. An overturned on Mussolini in every language in politics, 90 in everything, truths. Character is plainly the

apple-cart in Italy excites little in-under the sur reveal the interest Let anyone consider the elabo- thing that most matters. The

terest nowadays, noisy street squab taken by the world in the great rate procedure prescribed by the idealist who wished rather to

One case of smallpox was notified bles have vanished. Constitution of the United States write a people's songs than its to the Health Authorities during the Stirring Fascist achievements, unique tribute to success was called experiment. My attention to this for the purpose of lifting the laws was perhaps not so far week-end. Presidential elections above the wrong, after all, He had

such as the reclaiming of the by a German colleague more inter- marshes, the military training of ested in Italy, than the Italians."

turmoll of an ordinary cam grasped, at any rate, certain The forthcoming weddings are young children, the Battle of the As I stood in the new Mussolint paign, and, of securing, if pos- great principles. The pundits announced: Mr. Thomas Alcxander Grain, the reconstruction of Rome, stadium gazing at virile statues of sible, an almost non-partisan of the last three generations have Goldenberg, mariner, c/o Majestic need no description. They belong to athletes embodying the leader's choice. By that procedure there followed, as they thought, Apartments, 882, Bubbling Well current History. I witnessed the in-vision of a new race, it seemed to 18, following, on the November easier ways. They have preach Road, Shanghai, and Miss Ameline auguration of new roads and me that Mussolini in fighting a pollings, a two-month period ed the comfortable doctrine that Gajan, en route to the Colony per bridges, the launching of a mighty furious battle with time to redeem of (in theory) uncertainty, fol constitution-making is what Ranchi, Mr. Brian George Clark, steamer, the carving of new streets his countryman and to withstand the lowed in turn by another month counts. Look after that, and engineer, 82, Nathan Road Kowloon, through slums, the unveiling of pressure of world events. "Prepare of (nominal)....... suspense till the character will look after itself and Miss Baby Elizabeth Gan, 20, ancient monumente unearthed by the for the tatastrophies of to-morrow!” votes of the Electoral College are There are large numbers of peo- Par Tal Street, Kowloon City; and Fascist labour of to-day heard him cry to an army of unsealed and counted. All this, ple, apparently otherwise sane, Mr. Harry Chan-tle, 130, Des Vœux In a world of unemployment it 25,000 Fascists in the great Pinzza originally, in the hope of arriv who refirmly convinced that Baad West, and Miss Yuan Lui was impressive to watch Italian Venezia in Rome,AS A ing at a decision undisturbed by nothing is needed to calm and Houng, 84, Fung Tak-fai Street, WED., DEC. 7

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