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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH, 28, 1939.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

'Phone 26615 March 28, 1939

I

I asked Mussolini questions..."

First of a new series of articles in which questions are put to the

Duce by απ interpreter and answered from Mussolini's

My Autobiography."

د

Q.

39

You signed a Fascism has clearly outgrown." pact with Britain (p.211.) to

the respect

You have male your Fas- status quo in the • cists hate France. Did Mediterranean. Will you you yourself always hate France? keep to it?

A "And now (in 1915) while Italy remained out of the A. "On the delicate ground of

treaties I explained my war our first legions of volun- position and suggestions in a teers were organised and went speech about foreign policy de- to France to fight.... Again the ivered at the Chamber, Novem- red shirts, once distinguished as ber 16, 1922.

the saviours of Italy, now in the "I said, then, as I always say, indestructibility of Latinity.

land of France testified to the that treaties, whether

bad or good, must be carried out. A "The past quarrels-not long Mediterranean in- were wiped out.... off. France

was

Wyndham St., Hongkong respectable nation can have no past-of

terests other programme.

"But trenties are neither Everything. eternal nor irreparable. They was in danger! This I preached and set forth. France was in are chapters of history, not

danger." (pp.48-4.)

Germany and Britain THERE IS no danger of war

between Britain and Ger- many. That peril does not exist for the good and suflicient rea- son that there is at present not one valid reason why they should fight.

epilogues of history." (p.204.)'

me

with France?

Q. What do you think of the Q. Why not a political deal

English? A. "The intellectual life of the A "Italians....naturally

Anglo-Saxon interests

are renlists and the enemies especially, because of the or- of all forms of political bargain- ganised character of its culture ing." (p.41.) and its scholastic touch and flavour." (p.32.)

Q. You are accused of stirring

up Italians

in French Your followers cry for colonies to oppose France. What

it is recognised as an internal | Nice, Why do you want France's foreign lands? problem, like any other outbreak | colonies?

The treatment of the 1}- fortunate Jows in

'I have Insisted

оп being strong.

to

be

have laboured

generous."

ple, understandable... First, that we endeavour to make and mine is a policy of peace. It is keep peace by building and main- founded not upon words, ges- taining, brick by brick, stone by, tures, and mere paper trans- stone, a structure of peace, action, but comes from an ele- founded on realities rather than vated national prestige and from on dreams and visionary plans. a whole net-work of agreements and 'treaties which cement har- "I have insisted on being mony between peoples." (p.211.) strong, but I have laboured to

"We are idealists in the sense be generous." (p.206.)

SHADOWS of the VALLEY

"HAS HE really got to go,, Ponies-black, brown, bay, "off- Lovell ?"

white" grey, and the persistent ugly dun of the wild ancestor, Saddied "Yes, Miss, 'e 'as; your Pa from their green-tiled quarters on,

and rugged mostly, they clatter down says 'e 's not the 'orse for you, the hill. Missie, and 'e's about right, too. Can't take 'is corn, 'e can't. Not Mongolians even dejected-but this Docile in appearance most of the but what 'e's a nice little 'orse, is largely a deception.

like."

Here a wild-eyed bay tries con- clusions with his syce, und is dis- Firm friends, these two-the young comfited. girl, stim Jodhpored, the gnarled and A grey and a brown in single file bowed old groom. Many a compara-plod along.

The leader takes what seems to be concealed from the knowledge of the Intelligent interest in the watching "Morster".

bystander; arrived alongside, in a flash he turns his quarters and lashes out.

shocks the English public. But

blic. But Q. Tutts outca, Djibouti, in mer to oppose lively innocent escapade Pure

"I have sent forth messages

of crime. The rape of Czecho- A. ""To anation like ours, A. of brotherhood and faith to Slovakia may at one time have powerful and prolific, that the Italians who live beyond our been a reason for war, but it is has a need of raw materials, of borders. I did not give them. past and is no more reason why outlets, of markets, and of land the name of immigrants, because Germany and Britain should on account of the exuberance of in the past this word has had a fight than the rape of Abyssinia its population, only some insigni- humiliating meaning, and it an Anglo-ficant rectifications of frontiers seemed in some way to designate should now cause Italian conflict.

were granted when the glut of an inferior category of men and In any case, we cannot ham-colonial spoil was passed round women. I have been able, 'I am mer humanity into the Germans (after the war)." (p.212.) with bombs and bullets, even if What is your

[Q. we have the right to do so.

policy, then?

merits of the case.

gind to say, to protect my coun- colonial try-men without hurting the susceptibilities of other peoples. has This protection is founded on

and

between

Lucklly the intended victim, know- UPON THE barren ugliness of the Mongolian, has not been too trustful; ing the propensities of the com-fed Bowrington Canal and the stark and he quickly idesteps; which activity, hideous melancholy of Morrison Hill together with a couple of jobs at the the mist is lifting.

miscreant's mouth by his groom,

Beyond and away there seems to lie the long lost glories of the old clothed in leafy verdure sur

rounding the love-

ly houses built be-

fore the reign of

the despot King Cement.

vold of trafle.

By N. B. W.

cvil intent. That semblance of innocent interest had masked equine mathema- tical calculation of distance-and an accurate one!

Fresh faced young enthusiasts, booted and swea-

fine the

Nor is there any trace of a A. "My colonial policy real desire by Germany to pur- simple affinity with my international law and good sense sue-Britain. There is, of course, foreign policy-Even-taking-in-in-all-exchanges

again a vision.

Again the vapour_shifted... and, tered, mount for the trial.

A pig-tailed" Uttle some rough language. But that, to considreation the virtues of nations." (p.210.)

lady turns her gleaming, eager chest complete with stopwatch,

A little bunch of students of form, be it admitted, comes from both our colonising peoples, even re-

nut from the cobbled stable-yard and raits. through the massive old timber gates. sides, for the British Press is mombering all the fine human Q. Everybody, from Hitler on- not irreproachable.

Into the fresh spring beauties of the Two little beasts, chunky of head, wards, says he wants peace.torious Middlesex lanes, almost de-buil-necked material we have given for the Do you?

but narrow-chested, These observations are made development of entire regions of

cow-hocked and halry-heeled; one without any regard to the the African and American A. "There are those, no doubt,

undersized and herring-gutted Hitle Old Lovell, creakingly mounting, grey, of such pathetic war We believo worlds, before the

who regard me, or have

proportions follows on hin fine, though ancient, that it seems a daring feat on the there is plenty of justification after, we had failed to realise the once regarded me, as an enemy black. Smartly they trot along the part of the broad-shouldered, large- for the vituperation that has potential possibilities for our to the peace of the world.

lanes, the chestnut, snuffing appre-hipped young six-footer to mount, cintively the kren morning been poured on Germany by the colonial programme....

"To them there is nothing to

air, much less to gallop. snatches nt his bit. "ave a care, peoples and newspapers of "We missed then (just after sny unless to recommend to them

Viewed full front; the rider's chest Miss'e, 'e's a mite fresh, like." They extends well beyond that of the pony, peace-loving mutions. But that the war) that legitimate satis- my biography for careful read-

turn into the lime-lined, sun-checked the whole effect strongly reminiscent ride, and canter out of ken. fact does not mean that there is faction which should have come ing. The record of facts is

of tourist and Egyptian donkey. going to be, war.

to us from right and from duty worth more than the accusation

No symmetry of proportion, no Recent outrages by Germany fulfilled during and after the of fools." (p.201.)

"THE VALLEY is indeed in shadow; semblance of "oneness" between do not differ in severity, though war." (p.212.)

the sun, flouting the mist, cuts the the morning is a more prosale une "The foreign policy of Italy, spacious, horsesive shape in twain.

horse and rider. But the purpose of they may differ in scale, from Why do you need more as directed by me, has been sim- the offences for which Germany colonics? Why

Seven a.m, the peak hour of the day. than to please the critical eye of the

beholder. has become notorious in the take Abyssinia!

After the customary squealing, past two years.

backing and twisting, the six are off and away, pelting round the cinder track. A test of lungs, equino or human. And, malformed usually is, the Mongolian can, if he

did you

of our

So what? We came nearest A. "Colonial development would not have been for us merely to war in September last year.a logical consequence But the world is so jittery that population problem, but would tension to-day is as great as it have constituted a formula of was six months ago.

solution for our economic situa- tion.

Personal Impression

"Even now....this situation

HOW THE news-reels open up has to find its full solution. Our the world and widen the range colonies are few, and not all open of human understanding!

Your neighbour says:

to extensive improvement. (This "I know Mayor La Guardin of New York." was before he took Abyssinia- You answer, "So do I," although author)." (p.212.) you have never seen the mayor in "Into these labours to rebuild the flesh. It is the nows-reel which Italy's peaceful position before has given a personal impression of the world, and to develop, as the man which no amount of read-duty dietates, every colonial ing could have brought,

possibility which may help to The nowa reel gives the eye a solve our population problems, I vivid picture of what is happening have put my days and some of in the world to-day and gives the mind an understanding of events my sleepless nights." (p.213.)

Despite your peaceful pro-

that cannot be obtained from other a testations you did not for-

sources.

There is the value of the nowa bid your Fascist followers to reel. It enables the spectator to estimate the many angles in the organise demonstrations before news first received from the nows-French consulates, demanding papers, And, of course, it is upon French colonies. What is your understanding that democracy is real opinion of such methods? founded.

A "It is never admissible, in

It is deplorable, therefore, that I fact, that diplomatic con- consorship should exist in Hong-troversies can be twisted or kong to the extent that those retroubled by angry, popular de-l markable "March of Time" news monstrations against embassies reels are so hacked and scissored that many of their subjects are or consulates.

rendered unintelligible. Such an "Such disorders belong to an old democratic habit which

instance occurred last week,

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NOW COME. the 'Australians, mostly weedy and tucked-up animals, but one or two splendid creatures.

The full, intelligent eye, the fina cout, the springing pastern, the clean fetlock, the lean licad, the sparse- hoired tall-all eloquent of race.

Bright bay sold. 14.2 sle her sloping shoulder gleama as

stands, splendidly built.

She turan a kind and docile oye upon her pink-faced, waiting owner; he slaps her shining neck; she noses round hig well-knit form. Pols evidently! He mounts with ease.

No fidgeting, turning, backing or fretful wincing. Both in cager and willing anticipation of whatever tho tiny

may bring.

The gallops ended, steeds, heavily breathing, with out-stretched neck enjoy relief of freedom from the pressing bit. Riders dismount, and these too are perhaps a trifle blown, but radhantly cheerful.

I leave them to their respective rubs-down, baths, corn, eggs-and- bacon, oatmeal-water and coffee, and make my way to my own.

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ALL MAGIC has now disappeared. from the hill. Glaring Hght barren rock; arising dust. Wanc recks and breakfast walls.

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