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Rattling Back

ONCE upon a time, when a

man could travel no farther than his feet or the back of some animal could take him, and when his voice could reach no

ties.

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They call him

SYCHOLOGY has made us familiar with the inferiority coin-

plex. It is a state of mind which can arise from various causes but always produces the same symptoms,

Inforiority complex is confined to individuals. It often found in nations. Its presence can be easily detected. Threats, sabre-rattling and self-admiration are the symp-

toms.

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A writer who "exteriories" this neurosis is not only a boun to il: own countrymen, he is also luva’e- able as a sound-board abroad. In his own country he helps the pubile to get off their chests feeling: which would otherwise be danger- ously repremed.

For foreign observers he is a re- velation of the mentality of nation.

In Europe to-day there is one country which more than any other suffers from Inferiority com- plex. That country is Italy; and the men who gives it away is Vir- ginto Caydn, the notorious editor of the "Clornale d'Italia."

PROBABLY no living Journalist is so widely quoted. Qayda's dally. article is the daily bread of the foreign correspondents in Rome. Hardly a day passes without large ebunks of it being reproduced in the democratie Press abroad. One has got in the habit of turning to the page of one's morning or even- Ing newspaper where one knows that Gayda will be cited.

And if the Rome story is a splash" it is almost a certainty that Gayda has let off the fire- works.

It is not that the man is so well- informed.

The most successful Journalists are seldom that. There are plenty of Italian writers ns able and as knowledgeable..

It is true that he has often been the first to reveal the hand of his

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Mussolini's mouthpiece.

In news-stories concerning Italy you often sce quoted articles by Signor Gayda "Mussolini's mouthpiece." His opinions get as much publicity as almost any other European figure. This article reveals the true position of Gayda in Italy --and the truth about his relationship with Mussolini.-

Oovernment. But that is gener- ally because he is more outspoken, and less discreet, thun fils rivals, and, not because he has access to better sources,

WHEN he is on the right Inc ho makes sure that ell the world knows it. That is what being a good journalist consists of. But he is quite capable of getting hold of the wrong end of the stick.

During the Abyssinian crisis he was allowed to see the secret Muffey report, the gist of which was that there was no British - terest In Abyssinia justifying opposition to Italy. Gayda pub- ished it in the belief he was clam- aging this country. In fact it was an excellent piece of British pro- paganda, since it proved that the British motive In sanctions was more disinterested than the world believed.

by Is Editor with whom he dis- cusses the set-up for the next morning's paper. It is in the "Popolo d'Italia" that the occa- slonal articles appear which are attributed to the Duce's own pen.

Gayda's source, like that of his more eminent colleagues, is the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome.

Mere, in the Palazzo Chigi, he is received daily, either by Count Ciano or by one of the Foreign Minister's immediate collaborators. As Editor of one of the leading Italian newspapers, Gayda natur- ally has a privileged position. Even so, it is not by virtue of offelal Inspiration, but the use ho makes of it, that he has achieved him present prominence.

But If Gayda is not the mouth- plece of Mussolini he is the volce of the Italian people. advocating

Perhaps megaphone is a better word.

Gayda is usually described as Mussolini's mouthpiece. This 1 Inaccurate. It is not true that he sees the Duce dally or that he. is even the principal organ of Fas- cist policy.

Mussolini has his own paper. the "Popolo d'Italia," which is a family business and in which he takes the closest interest. I have been told that he is rung up daily

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NOT of all the Italian peopic, but of that seC- tion of it whose pro- found and often unconscious icel- ings are expressed in Facciam. He is the mirror and echo of at the obscure individuals who want to belleve that Italy is a great Power, who know in their hearts that she is not so regarded by the world, and are determined to assert a

Do You Deserve to Own a Dog?

ing dog for sale, I often won-

cold air. A clean bed of straw will also protect him, and this must be changed frequently.

Signor Gayda,

claim which other peoples deny them.

The secret of Caydn's success-IR- that he speaks for the long dor- mant but now very much awake- aggressivenesa of the Italian. nation. His outlook to typical of the public with whose support.. Fascism has climbed to power.

When Gayda declares that Italy is ready to march against France, he is not so much betraying an official secret as flattering tha- vanity of all his readers who like to think that man for man they are- as good as, if not better than, the French.

I HAVE Aanid that the section for whom Gayda speaks is not the whole of the Italian nation. It is algnif- cant that in his own country ho arouses less attention than he does abroad. This shows that Italy is gradually growing up.

'Gayda has been described as a writing machine. But it is a machine driven by a profound Inner conviction for which the apparently cold intellectualism of the man is only a mask.

It is sometimes suid that he writes with his tongue in his cheek. There is a story of his completing a powerful article, then receiving fresh Instructions from the Minister of Propaganda, and straightway going to work to pen a column from exactly the oppo- site point of view.

I do not believe that anyone writing day after day with the pugnacity which Cayda axem- plifies, can do so with his tongue- in his check. The sap would dry up unless renewed with strong feeling.

Like many fire-enters Gayda is charming to incet, a good com- pinion and an amusing conversa- itonalist.

GAYDA comes from the north

of Italy, from Piedmont, the hard- working province o Italy. As foreign correspondent of the "Stampa," of Turin, he spent many years in Russia and Ger- many. He is an excellent linguist. and has written several books.

WHEN I read advertisements offer-One Meal A Day farther than his lungs could send it, there were isolated communi-der whether those who buy the You do not deserve to own a dog animals, really deserve to own them, unless you see that he is suitably fed. They were scaled against

Buying a dog is like marriage; it Quantity depends upon the size and knowledge or ideas from the ought not to be entered upon lightly breed. But one good meal a day is outside work. They had gro-So, before you buy a dog, count the Renerally sufficient, with a very light use the same word. "Go" or "Over"]ong before Fascism, and though n

second meal, when required. The cost-not

purchase-money, dog must always have within his but whether you are willing to dis-reach plentiful supply of clean charge the duties you are taking drinking water.

Lesque ideas of what the rest of mankind was doing. They were inorant.

But they were isolated not by choice. They were, isolated be- enuse the technical means of communication did not exist.

Now a man cnn throw his voice around the world in a few seconds, and travel around it in a few days.

Yet we witness once more the existence of closed and isolated communities. But this time it is the rulers of those communi- ties who decide that they shall he souled in a dark chamber.

Listening to broadcasts from the outside world is discouraged or made impossible. The free circulation of books and papers is not allowed. In some cases foreign travel is virtually pro- hibited, and visitors are refused. The newspapers of the scaled community publish only such foreign news as it does not dis- please the rulers to have publish-

ed.

In all cases the rulers of these lands, who wish to turn their people into European Eskimos, salute themselves as the van- guard of civilisation. Germany Prepares

The mobilisation decree brings Germany still a little nearer to complete military preparedness and must inevitably increase uneasiness as to the Fuehrer's intentions. Training, it ls stated, is designed to "preserve the spiritual and physical ener gics" of the male population, but it will include military activities and is obviously designed to broaden the basis of Germany's striking power,

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Eighty million people being forged into the most colossal war machine the world has ever known.

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upon yourself if you would deserve Your dog must be kept clean and

Teach your dog good manners. Make him understand trafic dangers. It is easy to teach a dog only to cross a road when told to do ED. Always are readily understood.

He was an ardent Nationalist

member of the Fascist Party, has always taken rather an indepen- dent line, out-Cæsaring Cæsar in his hatred of Pacifism and Demo- cracy."

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These are some of the things you must undertake to attend to if you would deserve to own a dog. But to own a dog.

this is not all. Dogs have minds as well Broomed. The long-haired well as bodies. Who will say they

Twelve years ago ho left the First, consider why do you want varieties need combing and brushing, have not also sculs? Then treat your "Stampa" and came to Romo as to have a dog? Second, which breedte breeds, such as the Scottish dog as a creature of intelligence and Editor of the "Giornale d'Italia."

terrier, Airedale, and rough-haired heart-talk to him. ly really sulted for your purpose? fox terrier need "plucking," which is love your voice, and to know by its cist authorities as one

Ho will learn to He was soon picked out by the Fas- This last, is a most important point. best done by a skilled person.

tones alone if he has won your `np- The golden cocker is a beautiful

proval. A dog soon picks up the your dog's bed must have your meaning of certain words. "Walk" breed of spaniel, worthy of all the careful attention, It ought to be delights him; "dinner" excites him; admiration he is receiving. Yet i umised off the floor. Dog Baskets and but "church" or "going away causes heartily sorry that he is so popular-keep the animal from the draught of his doggy heart. For he knows he beds can be bought with supports, to the tall to droop and sorrow to fil or should I rather say "so fashion-the floor. If you have an old arm must 201 Accompany you, and that is able"?

chair it makes a plendid resting place his deepest sorrow. for the do at night. A warm, These dogs, like other spanicis, blanket or cushion should be under whether cocker, or springer, require the dog, and a second blanket-not possible. He

Take your dog with you whenever is only happy when a lot of exercise. It is a misfortune too heavy-thrown over him in cold with his "own god." The wealth of for such dogs to be owned by town-weather. If your dog has to stay out love and devotion he will give you of doors, see that the kennet is raised will well repay you for any trouble dwellers. It makes my heart burn off the ground, and that the opening you have taken to deserve to own withh me when I see the wistful is at the side, rather than the end, so him. eyes of the latest "fashion" in dogs; at the dog may be away from the

eant to roam over moorland and hillside and! condemned to parude paved streets on M leash. How dreary and unhappy they look. Out-Sizes

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Large dogs, also, are only suited to a country' life. They must have plenty of exercise if they are to be kept in good condition,

Amongst the dogs most suited to town Rfe are fox terriers, "Scolties," cairns, and others of smaller breeds. Ladies find pekes, Shetland collies, Auct French bulldogs attractive. None of those dogs needs more exer-

else than un energelle walker can give it. But they are all the better of a good scamper in some of the open space to be found in or neur every town. They make splendid puls, and are usually strong and healthy, with the exception of the Shetland collies and French bulldogs. Both these breeds are rather delicate.

Another similarity between matri- mony and owning a dog ties in the fact that you deserve neither a mate not a dog unless you will care for them "In sickness and in health.”.

It is worth while to learn a le about minor ailments in dogs when you own one. Condition powders are helpful, liquid parafin is good in cases of constipation. Notice if your the possibly suffers from worms, and dugt's coat is harsh and staring; if so, must be treated for them. Pay

attention to your dog's feet. Allend to blisters between the toes. If he is constantly scratching his ear, he may ignorant of aimple remedies, or, i suffer from canker," But, if you are your dog is really "off colour," do as you would be done by, get profes alonal advice.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Elayo

By Lichty

"I appreciate fans writing to ask to marry me, but really they must enclose stamped, addressed envelopes in case of

rejection!"

of those most suited to propagate the`off- cial view. He can always depended on to give it in full measure, and according to the for- accepted as authoritative or dis- eign reaction his article can be missed as a ballon d'essal. Some- times it is pure Gayda.

Tall, very fair, scholarly in appearance, at 65 Gayda looks good for many years of polemics. His retirement would be a loss more to

the world than to Italy. For he dogs her little service and he assists us a lot.

J. G.

"Spies" Guard R.A.F. Secrets

To frustrate attempts by foreign:

-powere to obtain our air scercin, the R.A.F. has formed ils own Secret Service.

This has become necessary owing to the highly specialised nature of the work,

Determined attempts are being made daily to wreat from Britain the performance Aigures of our latest. warplanes and the disposition of our anti-aircraft defences.

Espionage has increased to Auch an alarming extent that the Secret Service vote has been raised to £350,000 a year-ncar- ly double the normat peace timo appropriation,

The Secret Service branch of tho War Ofce-lhe department known us M.10--has been strengthened, and so has the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty. The Special Branch of Scotland Yard, which keeps watch on aliens, has also been augmented.

AGENTS EXPELLED

One of the difficulties of tho counter-espionage service is that no- action, other than deportation, can be token against foreign sples un-- less definité legal evidence can be obtained.

This is the sole reason why so few foreign spies have been ar- rested or put on trial.

Scores of foreign agents have been expelled from the country in this: way. These enses are, never mado public. The spy, is simply escorted: to a port by: Spacial Branch meTI, put in a ship, and warned never for return to ibly country,