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

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I

asked Mussolini questions..."

First of a new series of articles in which questions

are

put to

the Duce by

ན.

and

an interpreter answered from Mussolini's

"My Autobiography.

Q.

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

'I have Insisted

on being strong,

I have laboured

to be generous,

to respect the You have made your Fas~ Sole Distributors:

cists hale France. Did status quo in the HONGKONG HOTEL Mediterranean. Will you you yourself always hate France?

ple, understandable...: First, that we endeavour to make and keep to it?

A "And now (in 1916) while mine is a policy of peace. It is keep peace by building and main- Italy remained out of the founded not upon words, ges- taining, brick by brick, stons by "On the delicate ground of

structure of peace, A.

war our first legions of volun- tures, and mere paper trans- stone, a treaties I explained my position and suggestions in a teers were organised and went action, but comes from an ele- founded on realities rather than speech about foreign policy de- to France to fight....Again the vated national prestige and from on dreams and visionary plans.

"I have insisted on being livered at the Chamber, Novem- red shirts, once distinguished as, a whole net-work of agreements

the saviours of Italy, now in the and treaties which cement har- strong, but I have laboured to

(p.206.) ber 10, 1922.

land of France testined to the mony between peoples." (p.211.) be generous.”

(Continued on Page 4.) "I said, then, as I always say, indestructibility of Latinity. "We are idealists in the sense

"The past quarrels-not long good, must be carried out. A

Mediterranean in- terests

out.... were wiped other programme.

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

danger." (pp.43-4.). epilogues of history." (p.204.)

The

Hongkong Telegraph that treaties, whother bad ar

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

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March 28, 1939

Germany and Britain THERE IS no danger of war. What do you think of the

between Britain and Ger-

English?

Q Why not a political deal

with France?

many. That peril does not exist A. "The intellectual life of the A. "Italians....naturally

me Anglo-Saxon interests

are realists and the enemies for the good and sufficient rea- son that there is at present not especially, because of the or- of all forms of political bargain-

they ganised character of its culture ing." (p.41) reason why

and its scholastic touch and

You are accused of stirring Q. flavour." (p.32.)

in Italians

French tcp Your followers · cry for colonies to oppose France. What

one valid should fight.

The treatment of the un-

SHADOWS of the VALLEY

"HAS HE really got to go, Ponies black, brown, bay, "off- white" grey, and the persistent ugly Lovell ?"

dùn of the wild ancestor. Saddled and rugged mostly, they clalter down "Yes, Miss, 'e 'as; your Pa from their green-tiled quarters on says 'e 's not the 'orse for you, the hill. Missie, and 'e's about right, too.

Docile in appearance most of the Can't take 'is corn, 'e can't. Not Mongolians even dejected but this Here a wild-eyed bay tries con- but what 'e's a nice little 'orse, is largely a deception.

clusions with his syce, and is dis- comated.

like."

Firm friends, these two-the young girl, slim Jodhpored, the gnarled and bowed old groom. Many a compara-plod concealed from the knowledge of the "Marster".

fortunate Jews in Germany Tunis, Corsica, Djibouti, is your attitude to Italiansitively innocent escapado had they

shocks the English public. But

"To a nation like ours,

A "I have sent forth messages

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

of brotherhood and faith to of crime. The rape of Czecho-

A powerful and prolific, that the Italians who live beyond our Slovakia may at one time have 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 should now cause an Anglo-ficant rectifications of frontiers seemed in some way to designate Italian conflict.

were granted when the glut of an inferior category of men and

with bombs and bullets, even if policy, then?

What is Jour

we have the right to do so.

In any case, we cannot ham-colonial spoil was passed round women. I have been able, I am glad to say, to protect my coun- mer humanity into the Germans (after the war)." (p.212.)

colonial try-men without hurting the susceptibilities of other peoples. Nor is there any trace of a A. "My colonial policy has This protection is founded on simple-affinity with my international law and good sense real "desire" by Germany-to pur-

in all exchanges "between" sue Britain. There is, of course, foreign policy. Even taking in- in some rough language. But that, to considreation the virtues of nations." (p.210.) be it admitted, comes from both our colonising peoples, even re- sides, for the British Presa is membering all the fine human Q. Everybody, from Hitler on- wards, says he wants peace. not irreproachable.

material we have given for the These observations are made development of entire regions of Do you? ·

and African to the the

American A. "There are those, no doubt, without any regard

who regard me, or have merits of the case. We believe worlds, before the war and there is plenty of justification after, we had failed to realise the once regarded me, as an enemy for the vituperation that has potential possibilities for our to the peace of the world.

"To them there is nothing to been poured on Germany by the colonial programme....

and peoples

"We missed then (just after say unless to recommend to them peace-loving nations. But that the war) that legitimate satis- my biography for careful read- fact does not, mean that there isfaction which should have come ing. The record of facts is to us from right and from duty worth more than the nccusation going to be war,

Recent outrages by Germany fulfilled during and after the of fools." (p.201.)

"The foreign policy of Italy, do not differ in severity, though war." (p.212.)

as directed by me, has been sime they may differ in scale, from Why do you need more the offences for which Germany colonies? Why did you has become notorious in the tako Abyssinia? past two years.

newspapers

of

So what? We came nearest to war in September last year, But the world is so jittery that tension to-day is as great as it was six months ago,

Personal Impression

A. "Colonial development would

not have been for us merely a logical consequence of our population problem, but would have constituted a formula of solution for our economic situa- tion.

"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 1

to extensive improvement. (This Your neighbour says: "I know Mayor La Guardia of New York." was before he took Abyssinia-- You answer, "So do 1," although author)." (p.212)

you have never seen the mayor in

"Into these labours to rebuild

the flesh. It is the news-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 dictates, every

colonial ing could have brought,

possibility which may help to The news-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.) that cannot be obtained from other Despite your peaceful pro- testations you did not for- There is the value of the news-bid your Fascist followers to reel. It enables the spectator to' estimate the many angles in the organise demonstrations before French consulates, demanding nows, first received from the newa- papers. And, of course, it is upon French colonies. What is your understanding tliat democracy is real opinion of such methods? founded.

"It is never admissible, in A.

sources.

It is deplorable, therefore, that fact, that diplomatic con- censorship should exist in long-troversies can be twisted or kong to the extent that those retroubled by angry popular de- markable "March of Time" news- reets are so hacked and scissored monstrations against embassies that many of their subjects ard or consulates. rendered unintelligible. Such an Instance occurred last week,

old

"Such disorders belong to an democratic habit which

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A grey and a brown in single le The leader takes what seems to be

along. intelligent interest in the watching alongside, in # bystander: arrived flash he turns his quarters and lashes

out.

Luckily the intended victim, know- Ing the propensiiles of the corn-fed UPON THE barren ugliness of the Mongollan, has not been too trustful; Bowrington Canal and the stark and he quickly sidesteps; 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 hill clothed in leafy verdure sur rounding the love.

ly houses bullt be-

fore the reign of the despol King Cement.

·By N. B. W.

his

evil intent. That semblance of Innocent Interest kad masked 62 equine mathema- tical calculallon of distance-and an accurate onel

- faced

Fresh

young enthusiasts, booted and swea-

Again the vapour shifted, andtered, mount for the trial. "again a vision. "A ̈ ̈pig-tailed “little A little bunch of students of form," lody turns her gleaming, coger chest complete with stopwatch, line the nut from the cobbled stable-yard and rails. through the massive old timber gates

Twa tle beasts, chunky of head, into the fresh spring beaulies of the)

but narrow-chested, glorious Middlesex lanes, almost de-, buil-necked

cow-hocked and halry-heeled; one void of traffic.

undersized and herring-gutted little Old Lovell, creakingly mounting, grey, of such pathetic proportions follows on his fine, though ancient, that it seems a daring feat on the black. Smartly they trot along the part of the broad-shouldered, large- lanes, the chestnut, snuffing, appre-hipped young six-footer to mount, clatively the keen morning air, much less to gallop. snatches at his bit. ave a care, Missic, 'e's a mite fresh, like." They turn into the lime-lined, sun-checked ride, and canter out of ken.

Viewed full front, the rider's chest extends well beyond that of the pony, the whole effect strongly reminiscent of tourist and Egyptian donkey.

No symmetry of proportion, no

"oneness" semblance of

between THE VALLEY is indeed in shadow horse and rider. But the purpose of the sun, flouting the mist, cuts the the morning is a more prosale one spacious, horseshoe shape in twain. Seven a.m. the peak hour of the day. then to please the critical eye of the

beholder. After

the customary squealing, backing and twisting, the six are off and away, pelung round the cinder track. A test of lungs, equine or human. And, malformed

he usually is, the Mongolian can, if he feels inclined, move..

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Orpe. 1889 by Caisal Teabere fyndinnia. Ink

By Lichty

NOW COME the

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

The full, intelligent eye, the One cout, the springing pastern, the clean- fetlock, the lean head, the sparac- haired tall-all eloquent of race,

Bright boy she is, her sloping shoulder

as gold. 14.3 she

stands, splendidly bullt.

Sho turns a kind and docile eye upon her pink-faced, waiting owner; he slops her shining neck; she noses round his well-knit form. Pals evidently! He mounts with ease,

No fidgeting, turning, backing or fretful wincing. Both in eager and willing anticipation of whatever the day may bring.

The gallops ended, steeds, heavily breathing, with but-stretched neeis enjoy relief of freedom from the pressing bil. Riders dismount and these too are perhaps a trifle blown, but radiantly 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.

"A Class B picture my mother-in-law!"

ALL MAGIC has now disappeared on Fight from the hill. Glaring barren rock; orising duši. Wanchai

recks--and breakfast waits.