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THE WAR AND ITALY
Italo-German Relations
second danger was two-edged because Italy could become involved through Hitler's losing patience and attacking desperation, or his former ally in through Italian public opinion sud- denly realising that the country's in- terests were inevitably bound up with those of French and Britain, so that intervention might be procipitated by popular demand.
The most significant thing that has | Independent of the Allies, she might first seven become involved in the war, This happened in Italy in the months of war is the transfer of the German-speaking minority from the Italian Tyrol to the Third Reich. The fact that nearly two hundred thousand souls are being uprooted and shunted across the frontier is not the important | thing, for the Germans have already demonstrated, In the Saar and else where, their capacity to blend terror and propaganda until a people votes its own enslavement. The fact that a bone of contention between many and Italy has been removed is not the important thing, for Hitler has long ago made it plain that the Ger- man minorities are only a pretext for conquests which are made on purely strategic considerations,
Ger-
The significance of the Tyrolean transfer lies in the fact that it has made Italy Germany's debtor to the tune of about six billion liras. In Germany owed Italy September, money-nearly a billion liras-under the Italo-German clearing agreement. To-day, Italy owes Germany money, and the sum is prodigious. It is charac- teristic of the shrewed manipulators around Hitler that they have evolved, economic through sheer politics, an solution which wipes out the one billion liras Berlin owed Rome, and makes Rome now owe -Berlin five times that sum. That is political and economic genius, exerdised with ruthless scorn for the "human cattle" that inhabited the Tyrol. It is this sort of thing, which makes Mussolini admire Hitler extravagantly and feel that Hitler, even yet, can win a war in which he is pitted against what Mussolini would call "an old man Like Chamberlain,"
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to abandon Britain and no one in
How Italy can afford
with profitable trade turn to Germany instead
to know. Italy must Italy seems ship goods to Germany if she is to wipe out the Tyrolean debt. But how is she to get raw material which Ger- Two things many too sorely lacks?
Germany Italy can get: coal, which
manu- produces in abundance, and factured and semi-finished products, which the Italians will mark "made in Italy's and try to ship abroad for gold and foreign exchange. The Germans, incidentally, are said to have given
By
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,
JOHN WHITAKER
an arbitrary value to the mark, in exchange for liras, which is greatly to the benefit of Italy, both in trade and in payment of the Tyrolean in- demnities.
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But despite the abundance of coal the throwing out
of in Germany and the adjustment speaking population, Mussolini agreed the mark, it seems unlikely that Ger-
to pay indemnities for the less of pro-
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Government. The property of nearly two hundred thousand persons brings the total Indemnity up to six billion two to three months coal needs, but afterwards Italian industry, already lras. The individuals themselves
curtailed, might be brought to thousand liras are not worth thirty
standstill. High Italian quarters each, of course, but it is the region of the best hotels in Italy and of the argue that Germany can send by rail the three million tons now sent by Both best industrial plants.
But this would mean six million owned by the German stock,
This then is the secret of the in- tons a year of coal over the German traffic to one credible success of Doctor Clodius. and Italian railways. It would mean
doubling the-present Hitler's agent came to Rome just as
thousand seven hundred and fifty the British and Italians were signing carloads of coal a day or a train of contracts for the purchase of one hundred million dollars' worth of thirty-six cars every half-hour night
and day. goods to be processed or manufactur
had been ed in Italy. The British generous in the extreme on the prices involved, because they were buying things which the Germans wanted and, with the Italian industrialists full of optimism for the first time in many years, production had already begun in some categories. The various Fascist structures and corporations had already approved the contracts. Only when they reached Mussolin! were they abruptly vetoed.
Clodius was able to exploit two weapons: first, Italy's debt of six bil- ion liras to Germany; second, Italy's fear that, if she were not sufficientlyden.
Germany is already. using between twelve and seventeen thousand Italian freight cars because of her own short- age of rolling stock. That is ten per cnet of all of Italy's freight cars, and the country's industry cannot afford per cent So to see another ten diverted.
The transfer of the Tyrolean Ger- mans spells hardship and... suffering for a great many more than those hustled out of that region alone.
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By: George McManus
Bringing Up Father
DO READ MORE NEW ORLEANS IS SUCH A HISTORICAL
AND ROMANTIC OLD CITY ---
VIEUX CARRE-KNOWN AS THE FRENCH QUARTER, STILL PRESERVES THE TRADITIONS AND THE SETTINGS OF THE ENTIRE ERA OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE-
AMONG THE HISTORIC TREASURES OF THE VIEUX CARRE ARE THE CABILDO WHERE THE LAND WAS TRANS- PERRED FROM SPAIN <TO FRANCE AND TO THE UNITED STATES-
COMMODITIES HANDLED IN LARGE VOLUME ARE:GRAIN- BANANAS COFFEE - SLĪGAR- ORE - LUMBER-CREOSOTETM OIL ALCOHOL- CORDIALS
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