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eyes, its impressive and its ludicrous Mr. Frederick Peaker (the president of side. There was indeed something stir the Institute), speaking on Sir Evelyn ring in the spectacle of a hundred thou- Cecil's bill, said they did not like legisla sand fresh-faced and bare-necked youths, tion on this matter, and it was only becomingly attired in black shirts (and because all other methods had been tricl some, representing the old Nationalist that they were supporting legislation with party, in bright blue shirts), pouring a view to cleansing our newspapers. down the Corso to the Altar of the There had been a considerable improve Fatherland, to white the tomb of the ment in the matter about which they com Unknown Soldier, and so to the Quirinal plamed, and he hoped the bill would 5 to acclaim their King. The laughablered year by year and have a reading as long as the evil con- Perspiring side was not less evident. chifetains of this and that town argued tinued. and struggled for precedence; horsemen, bicyclists and Waggonettes jostled each other, and oaths flew thick between them,

blending raucously, with the din of

The Chairman proposed the toast of The Press and the Empire, coupled with the name of Lord Burnham, whom ha

described as the big brother of Flest

Street and the ambassador of the Em pre

several scores of brass bands, which marched at intervals of about twenty yards mingling their strains to nuners Lord Burbam said that when he was ing discords. But Italian eyes perceived made chief of the Black Foot Tadians they ne blemish in the solemnity of the cere save him the title of "The Old Son-- mony. In the watching crowd there was a title he would retain long after (if he and lived to see it) the House of Lords had but one sentiment enthusiasm thankfulness; and all ever Italy this been converted into a modern institution.

(Laughter.) sentiment was overwhelmingly predomio-

After speaking of his recent visit to the ant. What a differert placy was Dominions as president of the Empire now to be! How much richer and hal Press Union. Lard Burnham expressed pier at home, how much more feared and the opinion that the British Empire could reaperteil abroad! The last politician of the old school, Luigi Facta, had ranish- not have held together if it had not been for the fact that throughout its ed in a cloud of tolerant ridicule, after

pathetic attempt to stem the tide of length and breadth the Newspaper Press youth with a Ministerial decree, Victor had always been on the side of the Com-

monwealth Emmanuel, justifying that tradition of It has been inperial to a far greater his house by a shrewd breach of constity-extent than Governments and Parlia tional usage, had refused to sign his meat," be continued. "Certainly during Minister's proclamation of a siege, and the last fifty years, when we have seen. had accepted his resignation, promptly in Downing Street, a coldness atd calling upon Benito Mussolini, the Man of Destiny, to take his place.

AN ORGY OF PATRIOTISM.

jealousy that has given that great home of goverment so ill-cmened a name in most parts of our British world, we have always found the newspapers en-

For some weeks Italy gave herself over to au huparalleled orgy of visual, verbal,thusiastic and resolute for maintaining and orchestral patriotism. Doe gasps and strengthening the bonds that unite to think of the fortunes which must have us as a whole the Empire has reason been made by purveyors of the rational to be proud of its Press. (Cheers). bunting.

Mir. T. P. Concor, M.P.. said we had In those days about nine songs of a patriotic nature were elevated to built up the greatest fabric of human the status of national hymns. They were history upon the sanest, wisest, and most played in all the cafés, one following human foundations, on the fundamental pitilessly upon the other, wherever a principle that our Government rests on Black Shirt came in and demanded it,free institutions, free speech and free

representation. which he frequently did. Sometimes, a foreigner (I had almost written foreign derill sat down after the third or fourth. A chorus of indigrant shouts, or if that was not enough a sharp rap in the face. soon brought home to him the realities THE CONFUSED ENGLISHMAN AND of the Fourth Italy, and next time he In the middle kept unmistakably erect

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of an opera performance a Fascist shout would

Tana- go up and promptly hauser or Rigoletto would be sas-at peaded in favour of some martial nits. If any ardent music-lover secret reser ed the forcible addition of Such shace do his fare, he kept silent about it." Almost certainly he felt that some indulgente was due to the young heroes who had saved the country from the horrors of

Leninism.

HOPES AND ACHIEVEMENT.

POOR SPEAKERS.

THE SPEECHLESS SCOT,

Sir St. C. Thomson, the president, the ag dinner of the Royal So

of Medicine at the Hotel Victoria, London, said it was curious that after-dinner speaking should be a cus- tom with a people who spoke as badly as we did. A scientific gentleman had made the discovery that the most silent and inarticulate animals in aature more ASSOS, Owls, oysters, and Englishmen.

None of the four nations which com

could claim great clarity of It was not easy in those days to find a posed our more or less United Kingdom expression. dissentient from the general delight at The Welshman talked a language of his the turn which events had taken. There own, which no one else understood, and were those who deplored a few offers he, therefore, did not count; the Irish- scences of violence incidental to the last man suffered from confusion of thought; stages of the Fascist victory. But south the Englishman was afflicted with con- cannot be kept permanently on its best fusion of speech, and the Scotsman when behaviour: and how insigcificant were he went to a public dinner, especially the Fascist reprisals compared with the if wice was included, always hoped to misdreds of the Communists in 1910 and leave the table speechless.. 1990. (It may be noted in passing that Sir St. Clain told the story of an already by 1992 the undoubted sufferings American medical student who was asked occasioned to law-abiding citizens by to describe the various steps in the Communist truculence in the first post stages of the operation for appendicitis war years had een magrifed. by auto His answer was: "Cut right through all suggestion, to quite unreal dimensions.) the Latin names and get straight down There is anyway. 1100 the smallest on to the appendix." doubt that Fascism came into power in Referring to women, he said: "I find 19 on the crest of a tidal wave of ap- the lassies grow bornier as one gets proval and enthusiasm; that there was a older. They do it from spite. Woman general feeling that outward and visible doubles our joy and trebles our expense. the revival of the I do not want to single out more of her shape must be given' national spirit by a striking change of attractions, but to me her great value Governmental personnel and methods; and charm is that she is, at present, 50 and that the rosiest bopes were entertain- far as science can discover, the best and ed of the benefits which would result for stand here because it is one of the

most delightful antidote to man. Italy from the application of New Methods of New Men

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inscrutable ways of Providence to bestow

a disposition for public work.

The hopes then raised have not been cz some people modesty and on others entirely frustrated. The country modestly, but solidly prosperous-a: all events on the surface. After that nigh mare of strikes which gave Italy no peace from 1919 to 1921, there has been 'n fall which, by whatever means attained, has been beneficent to all classes concerned. The lira hae not miraculously returned

SOUTH-WEST AFRICA. GERMANS SCHEMING TO WIN IT BACK.

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parties in German Party are asking for entire self- government, with elected Legislative band, the ex- Can ore then say that Italy has found Council. On the other her equilibrium1 Has Fuscism solved, treme South African Party are seeking all her-problemas, freed her from all her incorporation within the Union, with cares? Alas! it most evidently has ant members in the Union Parliament.

Prime "If General Hertrog, the In this autumn of 1924 the average

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