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WHAT

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What of the future? · Italians are philosophical, for the present neutrality is assured for at least one month. But the question is:

sudicate news which is strictly copyright ced behind the bulwarks of reviving the anaemic ports of with allied leanings. If leaflets "What happens if Hitler calls?" the Alps, watching the Eu Flume and Trieste for com- can be thrown, why not send That the Pope and the Duce are ropean war. They are fear- munications with the Balkans. planes to Poland to destroy working for peace is comforting,. but an ominous sign is seen in ful of what the future will The Balkans have many mate German planes, they ask.

rials which Italy can buy in The inherent sympathy of the recent broadcasts extolling the bring.

exchange for machinery and Italian man in the street for valour of the heroes of the last A.R.P. instructions aro manufactured articles.

Britain is manifested in grnall war.

arrangement, es la part without previous Diminishing Mercy

The treatment of the Poles and the Czechs by their German masters takes the mind back to the worst legends

Mussolini's recent messages have caused widespread relief, in spite of official cold douches

A typical comment on Russia ways as is also admiration for especially broadcast in the lunch- ...Jack Hyltos's Orth. of the grent Asiatic conquerors. These from London and Paria, and of the Italian man-in-the-street, Britain and France for taking hour telling how one should deal with gas-bombs and burning are to be turned into hopes that, the nations will sit who is poring over maps dis- on the colossal German Henderson Sisters. slave States. They are regarded by down at a conference to discuss played in shop windows showing machine. There is no question lofts, and so on, and how to

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but that Italian faith in the Duce economiae in fats and food: millions of human beings whose European ills, are still advanced, the Russian gains, is:

While she is striving to "Well, Russia seems to be is vory firm, though there is a homes, property, lives, and labous are The Duce's efforts to consoli-

doing

well. Chi ci capisce whispering campaign unparallel- increase her foreign trade withz pleasure. It is amazing, when we date a Southern European peace

a save and sell campaign, Italy read of these expropriations, these bloe are followed with keen in- forced migrations, these plans for

appears to be taking no chances. A modest Italian woman asked "Why do nations scrap like women in a back court whon

settling Poles and Czechs where they terest. His first success, scored can best serve their masters, to think with Greece, and the conversa- that the ruler of Germany still speaks tion's now proceeding with Yugo-

By B. Mackenzie

foster renty of Versailles as a Siavfa are hopeful signs that the News Chronicle Rome Correspondent

of injustice.

me:

a mutual interchange of deficient

A decree has been issued in Berlin Duce's dream of a united South- niente ? (who understands any-ed in seventeen years of Fasciam, materials would solve all their atating that compulsory labour service ern Eusopean peace front is.still- -for-projects-of particular-Statem

Versailles comparable with this? It

proven

Rumania's position is uncer-

portance was to be enforced in the maturing. Bulgaria is consi- Protectorate of Bohernia and Moravia. dered a good ally, linked by What is there in the Treaty of marriage to Italy's royal house, that treaty was Intolerably harsh, while Hungary is a what would be said of it if it had provided that great numbers of Ger-

friend. mans ivere to be rooted up from their homes and set down In Britain and France to work for. the British and, French Governments? In what language would it have been describ-tain, but the Italian forecast, ed not only in Germany but in Britain following the Soviet's move as well? At this moment great bodies of Polish civilians are so employed in along her border, is that Ru- Germany. Poles and Czechs are mania will veer under Italy's Lreated na chattels,

The Germans hope by

wing. thesc

Reports of the with- methods not only to serve their large drawal of Italian troops concen- exploiting plans but also to break. the spirit of the two nations,

The terrible events of the last few years suggest a sad refection. The

"thing about it ̈?)""~

France have not helped Poland.

The queerest stories, apparently diMculties-7."— Russia's entry into Axis high quite unfounded, are whispered

There is a widespread feeling society is a blow and raises many from lips to lips. Mussolini, of sympathy with Poland and questions. Italians do not knowing full well the pulse of respect for the valour of the understand why, Britain and the nation, since he is informed Polish troops, but in the view what Italians say every morning of practical observers Poland by his chief carabineers and Would have benefited by climb- police chiefs, found the appro- ing down to

German German propaganda is priate moment to stem this demands, as is evidenced by stressed. The distribution of campaign, which, according to the present result of the war. pamphlets by British bombers diplomatic circles, will now be In the meantime Italy is very is considered childish by Italians relentlessly curbed.

busy concerning on tightening her belt still further-a practice indulged in since the beginning

GRIN AND BEAR IT

trated in the Dodecanese, which

were relayed from London, are

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world to-day is more humane in evidence, of a gesture towards most respects than it was a century

ngo, but the use made of power by Turkey and of the Duce's peace- those who can seize it is more ruth-ful thrust in Southern Europe less. Napoleon was ruined by his

fantastic ambition, but he was a continuing.

merciful conqueror when compared with Hitler. Ho did not all the

Europe he mastered with concentra-

The results of the Turkish

tion camps or flood with unnumbered Foreign Minister's Moscow visit

fugitives the Europe that was still

tree. There were countries, where are followed keenly.

his rule was remembered with grati-

tude and almost with affection. As

The certainty of Italian

for his nephew, Napoleon III of neutrality has kept Turkey at the second Empire, the worst that

can be said of him would paint a bay and it is felt that Clano has ruler mild and tolerant if we turn played the first move on the

to our modern dictators, He was

responsible for the casualties of the Southern European chessboard coup d'etat of December, 1851, but ho

did not will them. Indeed the blood- | brilliantly. Practical Italians shed in the streets of Paris was as fóreice fruitful exchanges of

damaging to his interests as it was

distressing to his temperament. To raw materials between Italy and day. nobody can read Victor Hugo's

chastisement of a tyranny that would the Balkans now that the Nazis seem to-day hardly to deserve the

name without thinking of the thunder are busy fighting.

that would have shaken Europe if he.

had lived lo KC-G the planned

Unhampared sea communi-

massacres, the concentration camps, cations offer an excellent way of the cold and deliberate cruelty an which Hitler builds his Stato, What

is the significance of this growth of

ruihlcsencss? One explanation ts of the larger Impulsor that moved that both Napoleons Wanted some the Napoleons. The traditions to thing besides power for themselves which he reverts are not those of and their State, Hitler wants to use Roman but of Oriental empire.

That the European peoples whom he can is why the struggle on which we are subdue, as he would use any colonies engaged to-day, and the constructive ho might recover, as reservoirs of efforts on which we hope to be human labour for the service of the engaged to-morrow, have for their German race. He seen the life of object, the defence of the most man in no other aspect. HIA purult elementary, of the rights of men,. of this purpose la undisturbed by any

the

By Lichtyof the Abyssinian campaign.

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Life here has been revolution- Ised. We are short of coffeo and young men are unable to take their best girls for a Sunday

drive. Private cars are allowed only for the "national interest." The platinum blondes are barred' from their moonlit car drives.

:.

The nation is calm, but thero- ia a general feeling of uneasiness. about what the futuro holds.. There is a widespread impression. that every day out of war profits. the nation as a whole, and that time may find a solution which, will not involve the Italians and. will cure the world once and for all of its present ills.

Meanwhile the man in the streat congregates round the wireless sata to hear the latest bulletins from the Western Front. He is very curious to know how the impregnable Maginot and Blegfried barriers can be plorced.