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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 4, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

IMAGINE MR.

CHURCHILL -!

Imagine Mr. Churchill, authority on matters his- torical, master of stra- tegy, student of sea-pow- er-imagine Mr. Chur- chill saying this of the United States' part in the World War:

Legally we owe this debt | to the United States, but) logically we don't, because America should have minded her own business

and stayed out of the

World War. If she had done so, the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the spring of 1917, thus saving over a million British, French,į American, and other lives! and preventing the sub- sequent rise of Fascism and Nazism.

Imagine Mr. Churchill, one of the earliest Britons to recognise the character of the Nazi threat against the British Common- wealth of Nations and that large commonwealth of freedom-loving nations of which the United States is a foremost mem- ber-imagine Mr. Chur- chill saying that!

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FRANCE FOUND A CLEAR-SIGHTED LEADER IN PETAIN."

Who Will Overthrow

The Duce?

ITALY, like a very sick man]

tossing on bed which not Imagine Mr. Churchill,

make hands can even skilled

a under-going in a position to know all comfortable,

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his life long how British mental and moral stocktaking.

With her dreams of a revival

-By- W. H. Biss

man

farm stock and

majority of Italians, although his prestige may have suffered by re- cent blows.

"Ciano is detested. His arro- patron- his insufferable gance, age, and his interference with the enemies even ury have made of the sycophants who surround- ed him when he was really an important person in foreign affairs.

his

and American naval of the glories of the Roman

Empire shuttered; the flower of "A census of strategy complement her colonial armies crushed in agricultural produce is now be- each other, in a position the swift onrush of Britain's Iming carried out, ostensibly on or- forces arki the Patriot ders from Rome. But the officials too to know that through perial

"His pro-Germans views. army in Abyssinia; Italy's fortunes superintending the count are Ger- their submarine warfare are near their lowest ebb.

are asking. What, the Italians on American shipping the

will come next? Germans made the World!

A prominent anti-Fascist, exil- War America's business, ed for his activities, some months before Italy entered the war, but in a position to know, well supplied with information

underground sources

what sort of peace can be from

Rome, has been discussing with

made with an undefeated me the past, present and future

of

al

"Wherever

one goes, my cor-

friendship with Von Ribbentrop. und the belief that he, more than respondent adds, one finds signs any other man, was responsible for the Dure's decision to fight of Nazi control. Arty. navy,

and Britain, make him the centre of force. shipbuilding, essential industries are gradually the people's hatred.

"His wife, Edda, Mussolini's passing into the hands of Berlin.

has also favourite daughter, "Rumours -of unrest which

She have reached England are well fallen from popular favour.

de- was her father's adviser, and it There have been Lunded.

especially in the was her ambition to see her hus- cnstrations.

but band succeed the Duce when he north, not against Fascism, against the high cost of living, laid down his office,

"Although her illness may 1 again, them together poverty.

was a serious "They have been crushed with learn that there

Mussolini and between

the severe rationing and general bring

snub Ciano when he

Government whose policy of his country.

While admitting the sullen is expansionism by viol-

of the majority discontent ence at the expense of Italians and their deep-rooted de- sire for peace, he was unable to other nations imagine recognise in these feelings any organised Mr. Churchill saying such sign at present of an

an iron hand, for the army split revolt against the Fascist regime. chiefs, despite their dislike and Edda. Not for the first time did a thing!

The fabric which Mussolini has at times open contempt for many the Duce Yes, it is difficult. But so carefully built will not crumple

easily as some people to so somebody managed

Britain appear to believe," imagine it and to circul- said, "There is, of course, a grow- resentment against Italy's ate it in otherwise well-ing,

real masters in Berlin, It finds Evid- expression chiefly in Rome, where informed circles.

the public is more outspoken ently Mr. Churchill could than in the provinces. not imagine himself say-|

Nazi Control

in

he

a great personal friend of mine,

cannot be

the

not

the