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UNDER THE AKE OF FASCISM

By Gaetano Salvemini.

(Gollancz, 74, 6d.)

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ASCIST Italy is, of coursO, a Corporative State. Everybody knows that,

Everybody has heard it a hundred times.

It is in the Italian Constitution.. And the imitators have put it into their constitutions, Austrin is a Corporative State, Portugal is a Corporative State. I expect that Abyssinia will soon be proclaimed Corporative.

But what the dickens fa a Corpora tive State? Obviously a Blato which is organised on the basis of Corporations. Only what and where and why and how are the Corporation?

Not very long ago I went to Italy myself looking for the Corporativa Stalo-looking for the Corporations. I found a big building called the Ministry of Corporations. I found that there were twenty-two Corporations, created by decres of the Duco.

But, though they had been created, they did not seem to exist, at leas to function. There seemed only ans

real thing about each Corporation:. that was its president. His time, in each case, was Benito Mussolini.

The Corporations did not exist; But, everyone assured me, they, were just going to exist The Corporative Blate, like prosperity, was just round the

cortier.

But what would it be? Ah! Nobody quitoiow, because the Duco had nover quite explained.

Ardent young Left-wing Fascists, were cheerfully confident that the -real revolution was coming, that the

Corporative

State would be pretty much what in Eng- Jand twenty years ago we called Guild Socialism.

While -hard- boiled business men werp con- -fident that the coming of the Corperations would give them again full, control over their businesses and pul an end to Govern- ment interfer. Cico, Guvern- nient regula. tions and Qov-

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ernment control. The Corporative Btate, in fact, was the jam to-morrow. with label suited to the individual Lastes: or, if you like, the carrot dangled before the nose of Fasciat donkeys of every colour,

Professor Salvemini, in this book. has finally exposed this humbug of the Corporative State, which is neither n fact nor even a theory, but a dema- Rogle device invented by n grent demo- Rogue for the fooling of his own people and the hoaxing of foreigners.

Mussolini wann disciple of Borel, And if he learned one thing from his master it is the value-to a "realist' politician of the social myth. He has built up his power on myth-hum- bugs is the less polite but perhaps honester word.

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Salvemini calls one chapter only of tals book "The Great Humbug." would have been a better title for the whole. Because this is an exposure of the successive myths which have served as justifications for Mussolinian autocracy and Fascist graft and Brutality.

The first of the frauds was the myth. that-Tasciamaved Italy from Bolshevism" and made the trains run on time.

Then came the myth of the Corpora tive State, the myth of Fascist effici- ency and pre-Fnacist Inemelency: now the myth of Fascist milliary prowess.

If you don't want to be fooled by the show, If you want to know what Me chind the skilfully painted scery, read Salvemini's book.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1937.

RORY AND BRAN By Lord Dunsany (Heinemann, 73. 6d.)

OST Irishmen like angels,

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OF THE WEEK Edited by Roger Pippett

IDEAS AND PEOPLE

By Clifford Dax (Lovat Dickson, 107. Ed.)

WAB lucky to have been born with so great a sense of won- der that I. have never become accustomed to the oddness of being alive."

Being rather that way myself, I ap- pinud Clifford Bax's confession of fallh. The romantic ideal of love at first sight has been exploited to the point of nausén in some millions of books in recent years, but n book which advocates life at first sight is still re- freshingly rare,

Mr. Dar's volume is peopled with all zarts and kinds of people. Some of them are so famous as to be house- hold words. Some are, by all the standards which control entry into the pages of Who's Wite, the obscurest nonentities. Yet they all live in an equal degree of vitality, thanks to the excited manner in which the author presents them.

"Look" he sewnia to say, "look what a treasure of a person I have found!'

'On one page, for instance, there is Arnold Brunett. (Hls slvie," mur

murs Mr. Bax in a penetrating balde, "is like tweed.")

write

Lord

Dunsany, for instance, writes like his own par- ticular angel-an angel of fantasy, wit and high adven- ture.....

Here he records how Rory and his slient companion, Brán, set out to drive their cattle to the fair at

this head in the clouds and his fieart in the land of Charlemagne, went the

Gurinaroonagh. Naturally Rory, with

derious, though hilarious, road, meet ing all sorts and conditions of strange

people on the way.

How? You must read Lord Dunsany and believe, ...

Flory and. Bran is magic, nonsense,

But he got there at last and so did the cattle, On another,' n butler named Smiles who drank four glasses of malted milk every day and described his imaginary.conquests of "real indica"

There are portraits of A. E. Gustav Holst, Austin @pare, an exhibition of whose strange and disturbing pictures is now on view in the neighbourhood of the Elephant and Castic, Clarence „Fitzgerald Perkins, whose leisure was absorbed in the study of catalogues of majo underwear-and 1 beautiful artist's model.

Mr. Bax gives us a charming pleture of W. B. Yests as a young man de- molishing bread and jam while ho talked and talked and talked and

talked. Once he refused some apricot jam. Tackled by žils hostess, he peered nt the bowl in front of him and re- plled, "I thought it was marmalade. Marmalade is merely the spectro of Jam"

Hundreds of other people rove through these charming pages. All of“ them, including the author, talk end- Jessly

about mule. cricket, Oriental philosophy. politics, litera- Lure and everything else. I could listen for ever. STUART FLETCHER.

"Don't just stand there, doctor! Win him over."

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OLD HEART GOES 'ON A JOURNEY

... By Hans Fallada (Putnam, 78, 5d.)

Playing Cards

And Their Superstitions

O you sing when you are playing cards? It is said that to do so is a sure sign that your side will lose, and this superstition certainly has some foundation, for to sing while plaving indicates a lack of interest in the game,

.

Card playing is surround- ed by many superstitions, some of great age, and many ONCE upon a time....Bo, quic of them having very sound

and casually, begins this new novel by the man who gave-or, rather, ung- those grim and searching studies of post-War Ger- many, Little Man, What Now and

Who Once Eats Out of the Tin Bowl,

reasons for the advice given. For example, it is considered unlucky to play a game of cards while seated at a table covered with a cloth. Ob- that absent-viously the cloth cannot in fessor receives any way affect the skill of the a message to players, but its presence could come to the ald be of assistance to anyone play- of his forgotten

And the fairy tale atmosphere is maintained from the moment when

Haus Fallada

minded old pro-

goddaughter,ing a "crooked" game. It would Rosemarie, to readily lend itself as a cloak for the inevitably manipulation of the cards, and

happy end.

But what ad.it is very likely that such cir- ventures and cumstances in some game in the ni 1 adventures past gave rise to the belief that

in between!

For Rosemarieit brings bad luck.

were

realised

rescuing

and the other Naturally several playing card youngsters superstitions relate to games in the professor which money stakes are wager- long before he ed. It is commonly believed that that a player who lends money while playing will lose, while to borrow money during the course of the game ensures good for Lune.

he intended to rescue them. Which was only to be expected, sering how lively they were compared to suchi

forgetful and gentle old man,

For all lightness and humour,

Old Heart Goce on a Journey is lit with vivid pictures of the German. countryside and, of those town and hedgerow harples, who, every land. prey on the hapless and the weak.

A great change from Herr Fallada'o previous stories. But you will be ex- cited by all the old pawer, vigour and narrative ense.

AND THEN YOU WISHI By John van Druten (Michael Joseph, 8s. Gd.) "HIS is a novel about play- writing by a playwright. The usual back-stage, paint-sweat- and-powder stuff? By no means. It is the story of a kind-hearted elderly woman, with a passion for the theatre, who befriended a young man until his play was accepted. She even quarrelled with her daughter and gave him a home. And then? He became a success-and she found herself left Blone once more.

A simple tale, but intensely human, for you come to understand the sel- fishness of the young dramaliat na wall -na-the rather-fussy-kindliness of his

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THE HESPERIDES By John Palmer (Martin Secker and Warburg, 76. Gd.) A SATIRIO fancy which tells how the fourth dimension (thank heaven, novelists, for that fourth dimension) enabled Peter Wyker ham to visit the planet Hesperus. There he found a highly organised community and witnessed a revolt organised by its more primitive inhabi- zants, who, like certain human, belags, cherished odd notions about personal freedom...

It la raolly dane-and none the worse for its occasional echoes of Samuel Butler, Elmar O'Duffy, Aldous Huxley and Mr. Wells.

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In practice, unfortunately, the second part of this superstition does not always come right, for experi- ence shows that the player who bor- rows after losing his own money, generally loses all.

Again, if the game is to be for money stakes, it is said to be an advantage to walk right away from the table and make a turn round. Thia superstition certainly contains Ja lot of sense, and originally was probably the counsel of a wily player who realised the value of a few moments for consideration before deciding whether or not to play for

money.

If you drop a card on the floor when playing, that is a bad omen; not unnaturally, for it denotes care- Icas handling of the cards. A play- er who is paying strict attention to the game, and watching its progress, will certainly not let his cards fall. The demon of bad luck always alts close beside a passionate player, und It is reckoned that to become annoy. ed and bothered when playing cards

to court misfortune. Grim Optimism

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At Monte Carlo it is believed that following a suicide all those playing against the bank will win, and when such news leaks out there is a great rush for seats at the tables.

It is probably reasoned that after a run of had luck which has ruined a player and driven him to suleide the tide of fortune is sure to turn. There is therefore a rush to play while circumstances are fortunate for the punters.

A person wishing to win at cards should stick a pin in his coat, and this superstition is closely related to another dealing with a lucky well. It was the custom to bring children to Bedes Well, near Newcastle, and there, after a pin bad been put into the water, suffering children were dipped, with bencficial results.

Finally, if you desire to be lucky at card gam do not play at a table with a common, either as your

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partner or opponent. This is an old superstition, and while no reason can be found for the belief, it is certainly often found. to prove true in prac tice.

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