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SIGNOR MUSSOLINI.

ACTIVITIES BASED ON TWO SOUND DEMOCRATIC PEINCIPLEX"

[FROM & SPECIÁL CORREAPONDENT TO,

"THE DAILY TELEGRAPU.") Italy is moving swiftly from the ass the same sort of alyss into which Mr. Snowden and his friends would like to pre cipitate us The political situation in Italy

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It is that the whole tone of nationed lite has prorel, and that its pulse has settle down to a calider and stringer rhythm.

TWO DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.

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its preserve inheritance for those who will come after This implies placing the interests of Italy before

those of living Italians, an upholding of the causes of pure

which in modern Europe is to

ed to be overshatown by the

The application of interests of the day. this principle gives Mussolint the mora right to demand sacritices on the part of his fellow citizens; also the right to refuse them material advantages because of patriotic considerations for the future welfare of

the State..

The Fascist leader's second principle is that in a democracy only those ar fit to

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Speaking on "The Press arti to the Technical Section of the Institute of Tournalists, Mr. George J. Wardie, at one time Parliamentary Secretary to the Minis try of Labour, snl vice-president of the Industrial Leagre and Connell, sakti that of the after forty years experience Labour and Capitalist Press he unhesita- 67, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, tingly afirmed that was little to choose virtue or the between then, either as regards

There was vision and comge in just as there was narrowness and bigo- th the whole, the ideal of The servant

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when the ballets cense whistline and the slave of none" was the general

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lin past the door, This vital condition Mussolini tn threw his active following into the tray without allowing the votes of a form carateris ic of the British Press. The Press less majority to be counted against them. was a highly developed industry in itself. But me express once more muy belief that aral it was to its own interest Lo from the first, Mussolini was hacked by the those movements which had for their object

majority. For

For the harmonious working of industry as sympathy of real national the Fasciati are not up the wide such as the Industrial League and

its of several

Council.

The Industrial fur-

Leagie actise elementa

Council was out n Capitalist or Labonar ward by a common neer, unted while this neat muluris. The best dodge. It was a genuine attemps of both prod of Mussolin's success is that, after six sections in industry to gr questions solved FinFiths f unspectacular preparatory work, by mutual agreement and discussions. In the nation calaily permits him to go un, and this movement the Press could play an im is clearly convincel of his ability to curry portant part. out his constructive programe

anil

fa judging Italian domestic affairs ex- perience has taught me to watch the Vati can, Geographers, when mapping a country, male and unade by blood and steel, one need fixed points by which to connect their does not see where Mussolini's activities. observations. The Vatican is one of the fixed could have failed. But in our time of con

ian plicated financial and economic relations triangulation points for mapping the Italian situation; for the Vatican thinks in Mussolini cannot avoid having to tackle centuries, while ordinary politicinus and it problems foreign to the knightis spiria uf He has been lucky in das respect ditesit to think in yents. People in the

found it 14 finding and giving his conlidener to an inner circle of political knowledge

minta--Professor de must significant that just before the Fascist extraordinarily able march on Rone the Vatican saw it to dis- Stefani.

a connection

Trofessor de Stefani, Minister of Finance, sociate itself from too intimate a with its erstwhile. favourite Popular party. is homo novis not only in pelities, but to This was done in a direct

rect and uncompromis Italian society generally. By her force fashion, Mussolini's success was in ne- of previse knowledge, of the subject he conlance with the provisions of the states- pushed his way to the chair of crunomics of Padua University, where his lectures men at the Vatican, whe

give

were appreciated for their sound imparial to Fasciam in its present form a clear ran

The

be of at least three

1 subject. treatment of

fa controversial years.

is a tween Mussolini and the

At the election of 1020 the Fascists mude constant and an intimate one. If Mussolini their first appearance in the Parliamentary has not yet seen the lope it is perhaps pot arena. Too weak to stand alone, they made because is does not desire the meeting Whatever happens, the Vatican will mind the eternal legeling iles of its poleg to keep the Church from from local com- mitments. But thing can save the Catholic Popular party from being absorbed in the tide of Fascism,

who

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SWEEPING REFORMS.

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"block" list of candidates with the keep

i Nationalists. The Fascists of Vicenza ap proached Professor de Stefani with an offer to stand for them. After muture rositler- ntion, he consented, but refused to be He stood includert in the "block" list.

"Fascist, pure on a list of his Lawn, as

His electoral address was an example of stern truth-telling, and abusu of the electorate. I have said already tint the whole tone of even of Italian life is calmer and stronger. On the which nevertheless returned him at the purt of Mussolini there is very little top of the pull. Mussolini's appointment of paudering to public opinion. In the name him to be Minister of Finance came as a matter the whole of Italy's future he calls the people to surprise for that swallow muy a bitter pill. While the Mussolini Ministry G AN A

surprise to German Government, in a worse partiju,

been very stund. He began by reducing | n hj,1 has not mustered the crage to many. The first steps of de Stefani lave of the servants of the the staffs of the Ministry of Finance and tluse régime, Mussolini is sweeping them out in of the Teasury, later algamating

which for andreds and thousands. Five hundred departments into one, a step tribunals, in which judges, and barristers twenty years had been recognised as neces- took up each other's time and spent the ary, but which notty hard had the courage country's money on a few paltry cases, to undertake De Stenni has inauguraturi have been closed in one morning.

policy ut movement away from

There is one quality in Mussolini which State control, a policy of decentralisation, augurs well for his political future. Ila which is now being put into effect in

directions. If anybody can save Mussolini, las the rare faculty of being able to delegate large portions of responsible work whose knowledge of things financial is to other people The absence of this ability limiterl, from the anancial burks lying in await to exploit Italy's need for industrial af many las destroyed the career

improvement and social development, it will prominent statesman.

be de Stefani.

Afussolini should never be judged by his The question on which the fate of Musolini will be decided is finance. If he foreign policy. There he is out of his depth. had lived in that blessed period of the An Italian of the Italiana, his mind is Italian Renaissancy, when industrial concentrated on domestic ailairs. His reign influence was non-existent, when railways, cannot be eternal While it lasts it will be posts, and telegraphis were unthought a great boon to Italy, and will open the way ul, and when international credit was

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