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Bid for Naval Power WOMEN ATHLETES

PROPAGANDA "WHICH MADE A

PEOPLE SEA - MINDED"

"Our destiny is on the sen... Schoolbooks, Press, publishing I will do everything so that the houses, cinemas, wireless, and ora- Navy is ready for whatsoever, fors, all contribute towards deve- may befall"--Mussolini

loping the notion of that sea as "Mare Nostrum."

When Mussolini took power eleven years ago, he told the Ita- lian people. "Our destiny is on the set" and as a revindication of the victory which had been dimmed by Italy's post-War Socialist incubus he took into his first Cabinet Italy's Beatty, Admiral Thaon de Reval, Duca del Mare. The ap- pointment of this war hero Navy Minister was a guarantee to the Italian people that the Navy would once more. come into. Its

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-BY A MAN

How Jumping Could Be Improved

GUY BUTLER SUMS UP

The Women's Amateur Athletic Association held their champion- snips for the Arst time at the white City, London, writes Mr. G. M. Butler,

The

distances championship. By 1932, the tenth year of "the were all changed to metres, pre- "Fascist Era," the reconstitution sumably to standarise the perform- and reorganisation of the Italian Navy were completed. This work ances with those of other nations, was done in keeping with political but it is difficult for one who has watched very little feminine athle- 1.5 well as strategical contingen- cles On the political side. the tics to get a line on the value of following facts were faced. (1) the winners' tline. with an Alpine-bound northern This meeting has now been frontier, Italy is practically an held regularly since 1923. In the island in a closed sea whose key arst Half-dozen years, 'naturally

Malta But gestures and appointments positions--Gibraltar,

and enough, records were the order of were not enough. A material re- the Suez Canal-are in non-Ita- the day, and it was disappointing construction of the feet, a renovatin hands; (2) with an exposed If several world's figures were not tion of equipment, a new sense of sandy Adriatic coast-line facing bettered each year. Now the time service, and A renaissance of an irregular and well-harboured has come when these records are morale were urgent necessities if Yugoslav coast. the key positions much harder to break. the competence and prestige of of the Adriatic are in non-Italian the Navy were to be recovered. hands-especially the Gulf of Cat- Questions of Anance, of raw ma- taro, the point of manoeuvre terials, of naval treatles, and in- which commands the Adriatic; (3) ternational disarmament projects Italy's traditional lines of supply had all to be, negotiated before in the Eastern Mediterranean from. any basically new schemes could Black Bea must be safeguard- British record, as did the winner be formulated. far less developed: (4) communications with Tri-in the Discus.

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Nevertheless the British reocrds for the 100-metres and 80-metres

hurdles were equalled, and in the Javelin and Shot the first two successful women both beat the

ed. So Mussolini's first task was poll and the protection of her Red There is no doubt that women's[ concentrated rather on personnel Sea possessions must be presery-records will improve tremendously than on ships. With able pro-ed.

during the next ten years, but paganda he made the people "sea- minded, and as a point of na- tional honour the Navy, galvanis ed into new life, made the best of the obsolete vessels at their com

mand.

Only the impossible that is never, I hope, will they approach absolute naval superiority-could the men's figures. From time to secure Italy against all the con- time I hear sweeping statements tingencies which might arise from by my athletic friends to the effect the above position. Having dis that women running are all

carded the impossible..the alter- wrong" To this generalisation I In 1924 Mussolini began- the native was alliance with another am not prepared to subscribe. I actual work of material rebuild naval Power. Ent to seek friend- do not think that the best wonen ing. which has its fruits in a com- ship. merely to cover weakness runners are as beautiful to watch pletely reconstituted Italian Royal would be to lose independence or at the best men, probably because, Navy. In that year he told the action. Mussolini has solved this anatomically, a girl is not con- Navy Board, "I will do everything problem in a particularly inter- structed-. to look her best when so that the Navy is ready for esting way. By perfecting the exerting great effort. There is no whatsoever may befall. My plan fighting strength of the Italian doubt, however, that a number of is to increase, gradually but in-Navy tie has turned, the position the athletes I saw in action on cessantly. the efficiency of our so that it is dangerous not to be Saturday' moved extremely grace- friends with Italy. He is making fully, albeit much slower than flect."

Italy an ally to be sought.

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"On the strategic äide, the Navy of new Italy is designed for speed," the consequent flexibility of manoeuvre and quick me about women athletes is that

One matter that always puzzles Together with building and reconditioning pro- striking power. Dreadnoughts and their high-jumping is not more gramme-a programme carried out battleships quite apart from Wa- efficient and

stylish than it entirely in Itallän yards-Musso- | shington other obligations is. Girls should, I would have lini never lost sight of his desire have been abandoned for three thought, been adepts at picking up to bring the salt sea into the lives main types of surface craft: those beautiful, effective modern of the people, and especially of super-class 5,500 ton flotilla-leader the rising generation.. Young Fas-type, some of them said to be cap cists belonging to the Avanguardi- able of reaching 42 knots, light- sti and Balilla (like dur Scouts cruiser scouts of 1,650 tons with a and Cubs) were given sea voyages speed of 41 knots, and destroyers and naval cruises as prizes-a plan of 40 knot speed. As well as these which proved highly popular, rals- there are 10,000 ton heavy arm ing competitive efficiency to un-oured cruisers, but the whole spirit expected heights. Naval contin- of the Navy seems to dwell in the gents of young Fascists were then low tonnage ships. You feel this formed. To-day there are over even in their public propaganda to 20,000 naval boy Blackshirts and which I have referred. The Italianmore kindly. So much so, that I Hurdling they have taken to many thousands have already public, little moved by the maj passed through these ranks into testy of a man-o'-war, is thrilled! should have thought they might regular naval ratings to the quick when it sees, actually reasonably tackle, fences of three youthful. keen, already trained or on the cinema screen, destroy-feet rather than the Lilliputian influx hitherto unknown in the ers at race through the seas.

obstacles of 2 feet, which is at Italian Navy.

present the standard height. The whole fleet is divided into In addition to n. livening up of two 'squadrons, each of two divi-

Whether races over 440 or 880 the Naval Academy of Leghorn, a stons. One squadron is stationed yards are sound or not, I suppose, Sea Warfare Institute has been in the Tyrrhenian Sea with head-is a matter over which medical ex- created for the study of modern quarters at Spezia and a divisional perts will always differ. Personal- tactics, theoretical and practical base at Gaeta. The second squa-ly, I am inclined to the view that and sailing ships have been re- dron is in the Eastern Mediter- the half-mile, at any rate, is too far for the vast majority of girls to stored as the basis of all cadet ranean with headquarters at Ta- officers' training. This return to ranto, a division and reserves pát- attempt to run, although, of the classic school is accompanied rolling the Adriatic, with bases at course, there will always be by historical studies calculated to the northern ports of that sea. reinvoke not only the great naval memories of Genoa and Venice, but the mastery of Imperial Rome

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So far, it cannot be claimed that women's athletics have caught the public imagination. In this con- In order to bring the fact of nection it will be interesting to see

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is not alone the sailors, old and the feet home to the imagination Women's Olympiad, which is to be young, who are thus being Imbued of the people a concentration is with the sense of Italy's ancient made in the waters, near some of 1934. possession of the Mediterranean. the sea-coast cities on the conclu- slon of the seasonal manoeuvres;

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and "during the manoeuvres them- At the risk of calling down selves the entire Italian Press de-heavy criticism upon. myself, I will. votes itself to the fleet, featuring voice a" query which is in my own the exercises and all their impl mind as to whether there are not cations as "big headline" front better fish in the sea than have page news. Mussolini has order.

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ed that each year the Tyrrhenian yet come out of it, in so far as

women athletes are concerned. squadron, after the summer man-myself have heard of girls who oeuvres, shall drop anchor off have cleared five feet or over at Ostia, the classic seaport of Rome. That concentration has just taken school without any springboard or place. Over forty war craft form- aid of any kind and with the bar ed a formidable and picturesque measured from the middle. Also I spectacle, and Ostia was en fete have heard of a certain young for three days, including a holiday woman who went for a cross-coun Sunday, with the populace of y run with a friend of mine who Rome pouring down by special was an international athlete, a trains to visit the feet and to fra-first-class miler and half-miler. termine with the sailors. After He told me afterwards that he searchlights of the whole squa- found himself unable to keep up dron. The fleet was the one topic with her. of interest and of pride: Mussolf-

And yet the British. 800 metres

ni attended the manoeuvres. In a record for women, stands at 2 message to the fleet he expressed minutes 21 seconds, and the his satisfaction with the high World's half-mile record "at, 2 level of preparation reached by the minutes 13.3-5 seconds. If what naval forces."

my friend told me is true-this, bet it seems more than likely that this it said, happened ten years ago Atalanta at least could have bet- tered both these figures consider

Such is the marvellous influence of Mussoling in every department of Italian life, however technical, that his word of praise puta every- Fone in holiday spirit. A sense of ably..

prestige permeated the Ostia, or Frankly, I write ne one without rather the Rome, naval week much knowledge of feminine end." For the first time in the athletics, but as having an open history of contemporary Italy one mind on the subject. Certainly I heard all classes of the thronging do not condemn them wholesale as Italians proudly speaking of "our a very large number of other male feet.Ion Munro in "London athletic enthusiastar do. Guy M. Morning Post.”

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