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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 30, 1939.
I ASKED MUSSOLINI
"Vagueness is
a stranger
to
all my policies?
Last article of a series in which questions are put to the Duce by an interpreter--and answered from Mussolini's "My Auto- biography.
Q18 the reputation you have for bluffing and gambling justified?
they are strangers to any policy of my temperament, and consequently mine.
**I Gu near to the heart of the Makes and listen to its beats"
QUESTIONS
even with brutality to the multitudes, That is a distinct contrast to the contemptible courtship made for their favour by the political partles of every time and every land." (p. 1-13.)
Most people say that dictators must always be on the go, never letting their followers pause. la this true?
A. "I was then a restless, being,
am
still. "I could not understand why it is necessary to take ime In order to act. Rest for j restfulness meant nothing to mr.t then any more than now.
"I believe in those youthful years, Just as now, my day began and ended with an net of will-by will put into action." (p. 18.)
Q.
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Do you take the advice of
others ever?
"I do not reject advice, even
A. from opponents, whenever they
are honest." (p. 251.)
Sir Benito
Sir Benito. Mursolini, GCB. (to give him kis honorary title he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath in 1023), is Afty-four, ale years older than Hitler.
Her married, has five children, of whom best known are airnian Bruno, flim - expert Vittorio, and daughter Edda, wife of Count Ciano.
When Italy was in political turmoil after the war, Mussolini and his Fascist Party took over the Government; have ruled Italy since.
Son of a blacksmith, he waz teacher, fournalist, soldier, be- fore finally entering politics,
Works in a palace, in Rome, likes living in his two country villas.
Trophies: Abyauluia. Formed Azis partnership with Hitler in 19.37.
confidence a motor-car, I have done "During my life, I believe, neither tours at great speed, amazing not my school friends, my war friends, only to my friends, but also to old nar my political friends have ever and experienced drivers. had the slightest influence on me. I
have listened always with intenst
"I love the airplane; I have flown
interest to their words, their sugges-numberless times. tlons and sometimes to their advice,
"Motors give me a new and great but I am sure that whenever I took sensation of strength. A horseback an extreme decision I have obeyed ride on a magnificent sorrel is also only the firm commandment of will for me a joyous Interruption, and and conscience which came from fencing, to which I devote myself,
Soften of concrete within.
with remarkable acis
physical เวฟ!
greatest "I do not believe in the sup satisfaction. I ask of my
advantages, gives me the
violin character; these do not concern single person; they concern the multi-posed Influence of books, I do not
In the influence
nothing more than serene hours of which tudes, they concern and permeate an believe
music. comes from perusing, the books entire people.
"To the great poets, as Dante, to "So one's whole life is lost in the about the lives and characters of the supreme philosophers, as Flato, For myself, I have used only ask of them often hours of poetry, whole." (p. 167.)
one big book. For myself, I have had only one great teacher. The hours of meditation. You have the reputation of book is life lived. The teacher is
soft-pedalling possible rivals, day-by-day experience." (p. 30.) when they become too popular. Is this true?
all my energies, without pause, with-measures aut interruptions, I want to bring to them their fullest opportunities...
"I have made a profound study of the interests, the aspirations and the tendencies of our masses. I push on towards better forces of life and progress. I value them, I launch them, I gulde them:
"I desire our nation to conquer again, with Fascist rigour, some decades or perhaps a decade of lost "I feel that I can speak with fem-history." (p. 251.) ess and dignity because I have be- hind me a people who having fulled
A. "I have controlled my the duties, now have sacred rights to
I have impatience. avoided leaps into the dark-
ness.
conclusions."
Q.
πισω
A.
"I do not sleep my way to
(p. 245.) ☆
What has been the key to your I foreign policy till success
"I believe that there can be counted among my qualitles one
of being able to act in good! season, and to strike at the right moment without false sentimentality where the shadow of a weakness or a trap is hidden." (p. 243.)
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How would you describe that policy, much criticised by others? "Loyal policy is the one which A. scores the real mur one
defend and for which to demand respect." (p. 210).
Have you a world missiou, us
Q, fritter believes he has?
"I am desperately Italian...1 be- Alleve in the fraction of Latinity (p. 32)
છે. A.
Do
Q.
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men.
"No other amusement interests me.
No. 3
nn
the
movement had assumed because of the stamp of my will. But the more I wished to give the party autonomous organisation, and more I tried, the more I received the conviction from the evidenco of the facts that the party could not have existed and lived, and could not be triumphant, except under my command, my guidance, my support, and my spure." (p. 122.)
From Bentio Mussolini's "My { Autóblography," pubitafied
Hutchinson in 1928.
710
THE END
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QUESTION: In what city are "being air-raid precautions
taken?
ANSWER:
Jerusalem. It is felt by the British Government that no enemy would dare bomb the Holy City.'.
bu
Q: What does "Jerusalem” wan?
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Q Has Jerusalem's history justified its name?
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I do not drink; I do not smoke and 1 by Doctors, Nurses and Public
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You and Hiter are fond of As for the love of the table I don't Q.
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faithful, followers. I always your real, opinion of political my meals are as sober as those of a Are you personally ambitious for Intervene where excesses and in-speeches?
pauper." (p. 170.) poteer or money?
temperances are revealed." (p. 251.)
A. "In polities ? have never gained
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endless Q.
have seen the futility of A those who speak You and Hitler are always streams of words. These words are
you saying
theke armles enlisted for ever to go reprezent
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Don't you ever wonder if you are not on the wrong track? ··
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from a campaign where the enemies A. men who grow rich in politics." (p. italian and German peoples. How do away into the night, never to return
"I am near to the heart of the cowardice. inaction, A. muss, and listen to curb of it out realism (p. 201.)
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you know this?
"I ask nothing for myself or inlne;] no material goods, no honours, no testimonials, no resolutions of ap-read its aspirations and interest. proval which presume to consecrate know the virtue of the ruce. me to history." (p. 250.)
(p.
Bre
with compromise
principle, and idealism
Do dictators have any pri- pate fe? Hitler is an ascetic hobbles Ord walking and whose architecture.
Hitler says he is an idealist. jou? "founded my labour on facts
he want to be a simple servant of 2 its purity and soundness."Q and the real conditions of the the Stute; chief of a party, but, first, italian people; from such realistic worthy head of a strong Govern- activity 1 drew valuable lessons. Iment." (p. 70.)
give useful, imme- have been able dhte results, looking towards a new future of our country." (p. 230.)
What are your immediate aims, then?
Q.
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Are dictators like yourself
Q. Hitler, sans a leader must be
master of the masses, not their A
suppllant, Do you agree?
the
"I abandoned without regret all the superfluous comforts of 11fc. I made only an exception for sports which, while making my body
of uncertainty; fortunately, I "I never had any parenthesis. never knew those discouragements or those exaltations which often are harmful to the effectiveness of a stalesman. "From
world is." (pn, 171-172)
personally responsible for all A. "I have nevedied any one; sport and ready, succeeded in creating Q.
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What made you decide to be a dictator? Do you believe
I spoke always of the costs of in my complex life of work healthy "My life Identifies itself almost victories-sacrifice and sweat and and happy intervals. I have al-in Hitler's Fuchrer-principle? A. exclusively with thousands of blood." (p. 28.)
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"I wanted with all my desire Individuality: I didn't want to ingratiate myself theatre, which once took away from A "I am tireless-in-my-wish-to-seeucts-of-government..
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1 sometimes feel only spoken with naked
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