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MUSSOLINI POINTS TO A NEW HORIZON

by

EMRYS JONES

[USSOLINI'S accent now is on the Adriatic, and. what

goes, too,

he tells his Roman citizens-und the world.

If there is any menace in this, whom does it concern!

First, Jugoslavia though some wil perhaps read something else into it, for it is hinted in many capitals that Hitler, other partner in the Axis, is also ambitious smune day to bathe in the warm waters of the Adriatic without stepping off German soll.

So that inakes less possible the view that Hiter has told his part- ner to go ahend and try to match Dalmatia from Jugoslavia.

In Belgrade the statesmen are getting into n huddle, und nu doubt these next few days will see a lot of coming and going between the diplomats of Italy and Jugo- slavia.

Look at the map. Jugoslavia has everything to lose in her province of Dalmatia.

If that is threatened or lost, then Jugoslavia will lose with it any outlet to the sea. and that. In to day's power polltles incans

Ural such economic pressure can be put on an inland State that it may have to succumb to the wishes of more powerful neighbours.

nember Hungary.

SWITZER GERMANY

LAND

CORSICA

TRENTO

Re-

All the ports of Jugoslavia look out

10 the Adriatic--Spl, Susak, Dubrovnik, and Kotor.

For the Jugoslavs, any hint of trouble now in the Adriatie would be disastrous, for internally the Serbs and Croals, two of the three races making up the Kingiom, are at each other's throats more bitter- ly than ever.

The Croats want a wide measure of autonomy, and now they want it so badly that they have hinted that if they are not given it by the Central Government at Del- grade, well, then, they are averse to calling in a powerful Re- neighbour to "protect" them. member Czecho-Slovakia,

Joalous Of Each Other

nut

IF you want to sum up Jugos slavin generally, you can say that. both Serbs and Croats are united in their hatred of Germany and in their fear of Italy, but their Jealousy for each other is greater then either their hatreds or tears.

So, If somebody wants to make trouble, there's plenty of dynamite Jylhg loose in Jugoslavia. In that country, saved from italian

da..

HUNGARY

RUMANIA

JUGOSLAVIA

ITALY

SARDINIA

BULGARIA

GREECE

TURKEY

DID YOU EVER WONDER?

Why the Pacific Ocean Is More Calm

on

Than the Atlantic?

[PACIFIC OCEAN

£8,634,000

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According to one historicul ac- November 25. 1520, count, Magellan "entered the Great South Sea, shedding tears of joy. Pigafetta, an eyewitness, relates, when he recognised its imitable . Admiring is plavid expanse.. surface... he Impased upon it the nune it is forever to benv the Pacific (Penceful) Ocean,"

The Pacide Const of the United States does seein, on the average, to be less frequently Inshed with storms than our Ailäntie seaboard. However, the coasts of China and Japan do experience violent and destructive typhoons.

Whatever advantage of calm- ess the Pacific may have over the Attantle is due chiefly to its great size. The area of the Pacific is greater than that of the four con- Unent combined. The Atlantic is only about half the size of the

INANITY FARE

Winston

Pace convinced an Unboliover

That he didn't suffer from

war-fever

SQUARE MILES

ATEĽNTIC OCTAN

M1,321,000

FINITAN" OCEAN

29,340,000 [SQUARE MILES.

In the areas, given above, the Arctic, Mediterranean, eto, ore included in the Atlantic, and the Antarctic or Southwen Ocean has been divided between the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

Pacifle and less than a third as wide.

The winds, tides, and currents. are less modified in the broad: Pacife than in narrower oceans. The tidal wave, originating at the Equator, makes its way northward through the Pacific almost without being, obstructed. The average tide on the west coast of Amertes is under 10 feet and the highest only 28 feet. In the Atlantic, how- ever, the tide in the Bay of Fundy renchies 80 feet or more, and the tide in the Bristol Channel rises 40 to 50 feet.

A potent cause of storing is the clash of great masses of warm alr with other masses of cald nir. The warm Gulf Stream, coming up the Atlantic Const and crossing the оссал to Europe, heals the alr above it. Storms arise when this warm air encounters cold masses of air from the Arctie.

The corresponding warm stream Ir the Pacific, the Japanese Cur- rent, traveln northward past the const of Japan and gives rise to storms off the coast of Alaska which, having little economie, im-. portance, pass relatively unnoticed.

The large areas of other parts of the Pacife having water of rather even temperature, keeps the air

relatively temperature

constant and reduces the number and vio- lence of the storms in such re- gions.'

mination by President Wilson- more of that anon-there is a tine Army, especially of infantrymen, but there is no poliilent unity.

Anyway, ever since the war, Jugoslavia has been courled by two ambitious suftors, Italy and France.

For 10 France he is part of the Central European alliances against Germany. For Italy she is an out- Jet for her goods.

These two suitors spent a lot of money on her, and she coquetted with bath to the great satisinction of neither.

If Mussolini, has more definite designs in the Adrintle, then this Judy of 20 years will have to make up her mind.

Now for Italy. For that country Dalmatia hurts like an old wound -a war wound.

were

Go back to 1915 when the na-. tions

battling for their existence. In Italy then a young man was expelled from the So- clalist Party for urging his coun- try to go to war against Austria. His name was Benito Mussolini.

In England, too, the politicians were busy trying to detach Italy from her understanding with the Central Powate, and to persuade her to fight on the side of the Allies.

Outbid The Germans

NOW Lord Grey, British Foreign Minister, outbid the Germans and Austrians, promised the Italians Ure Austrian Tyrol and the Dal- matian coast-excluding Fiume-it they would fight for the Allies. They agreed, and signed what is called the London Treaty of 1915.

Well, Italy came out on the win- ning side of the war, and on the losing side of the peace.

At the Paris Peace Conference her Orlando argued that because of the Italian victory (supported by British, American, and Czech divisions) at Vittoria Veneto, the port of Flume should be added to the spoils already promised.

Then President Wilson became

could stubborn, as he

when he wanted to be. No, said he, Italy should have the Tyrol, the Tren- tino, and the Dalmatian coast only as far as Trieste.

Flume, he

said, was a Slay port, and should to Jugoslavia, the Kingdom created out of Slavs, Serbs, and Croats.

They could not agree, so Orlando flounced out of the conference, packed his bags, and went back to Rome.

Hero Of Young Italy

THE result was that Italy got less out of the peace than she ex- pected, but there was one of her countrymen not prepared to sub- mit to the decisions of the politi- clans elther in Paris or Rome.

He was a little, bald airman- poet, called Gabriele d'annunzio, who had hero of young Italy. flown over Vienna during the war. dropping manifestoes instead of Austrians to bombs urging the make pence..

He determined to

strong be where the politicians were weak, So in September, 1919, he com- he mandeered

aeroplane every could find, and with a band of men few lo Flume.

From the port he drove out the Allied army of occupation, de- clared Fiume (talion. It Was dramatic, but it was also comic

opera.

He put his men into cloaks, put daggers in their belts, and erested them with engle feathers. He made speeches that reminded the world of old Rome, encouraged his aviators to bomb the Ministries in. modern Rome with beetroot.

Ships deserted to him from the Italian Navy, war heroes crowded around him. Nelther threats from Rome nor from Paris could shift him from his curious kingdom.

It was an amusing episode, but It was, in a way, the birth of Fas clan.

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Bombarded By Float.

FOR three months d'Annunzio held out, until the Italian Govern- ment on Christmas Eve, when there were no newspapers to warn the public, sent the fleet to bom- bard Flume, and drove him out. When Italy heard, Italy mourned.

Ever since, the Italians hove looked across the Adriatic to what might have been.

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"The opposing force has outwitted us, Sir-they got here ahoad of us and bought up all the gas!"

There's

no beating the TRUTH

A WORD that is constantly on people's tongues in these days of war is the word "Propaganda." It isn't a happy word. In fact, it's one that most of us take to be a more modern or polite version of the old-fashioned word, "Lies."

STRICTLY SPEAKING, this isn't so. Propaganda-and every country at war has to use it can just as readily consist of truths as of untruths. An expert would tell you that any state- ment issued in order primarily to influence people's opinions is propaganda. Go, obviously, a statement of fact can be just as effective or even more so than a story that is simply the pro- duct of an unscrupulous imagination.

"OR EVEN MORE SO."-Note-those-words-For-it-is-- here that we find one of the biggest differences between Nazi ideas and our own.

THE NAZIS quite openly boast of their willingness to use any kind of lle that will serve their immediate purpose. Hitler himself is very frank. He is all for using lies as big as possible, for, in his own words, "The broad masses of the nation more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie." And again, "The people can be made to see even Heaven as Hell or the most wretched life us Paradise."

He told HE has certainly put his philosophy into practice. the German people that Britain caused the war of 1914. He maintained that the German army was actually winning in He re- He evolved the idea of a super "Aryan" race. 1918. presented Germany as the sworn enemy of Soviet Russia. He denied that he wanted Austria. Denied that he wanted any Denied in September, 1938, but the Germans of Czechoslavia. that he had any more territorial claims in Europe. Told Ger- many consistently that Britain was decadent and would never fight. That the Dominions would desert her the moment she attempted to do so.

NOW he and his lieutenant Goebbels are having a lot of explaining to do-because all this was lica. Lies told in a big way, usually with mam- moth parades, blaring bands and gigantic banners, so that the German people were stunned and deafened into ac- cepting them as truth or into keeping their doubts to them- selves.

?

FOR THE TROUBLE about telling lles is to keep then told. So the "good. German" has a radio set that can't "get" a non-German station. He goes to prison for a long time or may even be beheaded if he listens to an English broadcast and tells his friends what he hears. Free speech has been unknown since the Nazis came to power.

WELL, that is a kind of propaganda for which this. country has no use. Our Bri- tish way is different. We rely upon the truth. We do so not only on moral grounds but be. cause facts are stubborn things and, in the ultimate, the truth cannot be defeated.

WE want here no nation of hoodwinked dupes living in a fool's "paradise" and heading for a terrible awakening. For a thousand years the flag of freedom-free speech, free opinion, free discussion-has flown from Britain's mast- head. One of our greatest strengths is the independence that Britons enjoy and the strength of character that it breeds. We are not foolish enough to change our well- proved policy now that the struggle between Truth and Lies is joined,

WE are fighting to-day so that this tyranny of lies, this blindness of ignorance and this crushing of the individual under the jackboot of Nazi oppression shall cense to menace us and all the world.

HAVE utter confidence in British official news. Be on your guard conselessly against Nazi propaganda, Have not. the slightest fear in heart or mind. THE TRUTH WILL WIN.

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