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UNDER THE AXE OF FASCISM By Gaclane „Salvemini (Gollancz, 73, Gd.)

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¶ASCIST Italy is, of course,

Corporative

♫

Statc. 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, Austria is a Corporativo State, Portugal is a Corporative State. I expect that Abyssinia will soon be proclaimed Corporative, w

But what the dickens is a Corpora- Ure Blate? Obviously & Blate which is organised on the basis of Corporations. Only-what and where and why and how are the Corporations?

Not very long ago 2 went to Italy myself looking for the Corpurative Biate-looking for the Corporations. I found a big building called the Ministry of Corporations. I found that there were twenty-two Corporations, created by decren of the Duce,

But, though they had been created, they did not seem to exist, all lest to function. There seemed only one real thing about each Corporation: that was its president. Ils name, in each case, was Benito Mussolini,

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

curtier.

But what would it be? Ahi Nobody quite knew, because the Duce and never quite explained.

Ardent young Left-wing Fascists were cheerfully confident that the real revolution was coming, that the Corporativo Slate would be pretty much

what in Eng. land twenty

years ago wo called Gulld Socialism,

Willo hard. bolled business men were con- fident that the coming of the Corporations would give them again fuli control over their bukietSES And nut 报销 end to averti- inent Interfer- race,

ment

Gnvera- regula-

tous and Gov-

Gaetano

Salvemial

ment control. The Corporative Sinte, in fact, was the jam to-marrow. with label suked to the thdividua? tastes: or, if you like, the enrrot dangled before the nose of Fascist donkeys of every colour.“

Professor Balvemini, this book. has finally exposed this humbug of the Corporative State, which is neither a fact nor even a theory, but is demas gogic device Invented by ʼn grent dems- gogue for the fooling of his own people and the hoaxing of foreigners.

Mussolini was a disciple of Sorel. And if he learned one thing from his inanter It is the value-to "list" politician-of the social myth. He has issilt up his power on myllis-hu131- bugs is the less polite but perhaps honester word,

Balvemini calls one chapter only of his book 'The Great Humbug." It would have been a belter tile for the whole. Because is is an exposure of the successive myths which have served as justifications for Mussolinin nutocracy and Fascist graft and brutality.

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

Then came the myth of the Corporn. tive State, the myth of Faselst cici- ency and pre-Fascint inefficiency; now the myth of Fascist military prowess,

If you don't want to be fooled by the show, if you want to know what Weg chind the skilfully painted scenery, read Balvemini's book.

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WAS 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 plaud Oilford Bax's confession of faith.

The romantis ideal of love at first sight lins been exploited to the point of nausea in some millions of books in recent years, but a book which advocates ille at first sight is still re- freshingly rare.

Mr. Bax's volume is peopled with all aorta and kinds of people. Some of them are ad famous 'as to be house- hold words. Bompa tre, by all the standards which control entry into the pages of Who's Who, the abscurest nonentitles. Yet they all live in an equal degree of vitality, thanks to the excited manner in which the author presents them.

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JANUARY 28,

1937.

Playing Cards

And Their Superstitions

Do 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 Bing while plaving indicates a lack of interest in the game.

Card playing is surround- ed by many superstitions, some of great age, and many of them having very sound 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-, viously the cloth cannot in fessor receives any way affect the skill of the a message to players, but its presence could como to the alde of assistance to anyone play-

Who Once Eats Out of the Tin Bowl.

And the fairy tale atmosphere is that absent

maintained from the moment when

minded old pro-

of his forgotten

god-daughter,ing a "crooked" game. It would Rosemarie to roadily 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 m 1 sadventures

in betweent

For Rosemarle

and the other

youngsters

realised ho Intended to

past gave rise to the belief that

it brings bad luck.

Naturally several playing card

wero rescuing superstitions relate to games in: the professor which money stakes are wager- long before lod. It is commonly believed that a player who lends money while playing will lose, while to borrow money during the course of the game ensures good for tune.

Hans Fallada

rescue then Which was only to be expected, seeing how lively they were compared such a forgetful and gentle,old man.

For all its lightness and humour,

Old Heart Goes on a Journey is The Borrower's Burden

with vivid pictures of the German countryside and of those town and hedgerow harpies who. In every land, prey on the hipless and the weak.

A great change from Herr Fallada's previous stories. But you will be ex- alted by all the old power, vigour and narrative ease.

AND THEN YOU WISHI

By John van Druten Michael Joseph, &s. td.) THIS 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 nccepted. She even quarrelled with her daughter and gave him a home. And then? He became a success and she found herself left alone once more.

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'(Martin Seeker and Warburg, 78. 6d. A SATIRIC fancy which tells how

the fourth dimension (thank heaven, novelists, for that fourth dimensioni) enabled 'Peter Wyke- ham to visit the planet Hesperus. There he found a highly organised community and witnessed a revolt organised by its more primitive inhabt tants, who, like certain human beings, cherished odd notions apcut personal freedom,.

It is racily done-and none the worse for its occational echoes of Samuel Butler, Elmar O'Duty, Aldous Huxley

R. P.

and Mr. Wells.

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 a 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 less 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 sits close beside a passionate player, and it is reckoned that to become annoy- ed and bothered when playing cards In to court misfortune.

Grim Optimism

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

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