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|| MAGAZINE MUSSOLINI POINTS TO A NEW HORIZON

by

EMRYS JONES

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

goes,

he tells his Roman citizens-and the world.

If there is any menace in thin, whom does it concern?

soine

- First, Jugainvla though will perhaps read something else into it, for it is hinted in any capitals that Hitler, other partner In the Axis, is also ambitious some. day to bathe in the warm waters of the Adriatle without stepping of German soil.

So that makes less possible the view that Hitler has told his part-. ner to go ahead and try to snatch Dalmatia from Jugoslavia,

In Belgrade the latesmen are

a huddle, Ketting into

and no doubt these next few days will see a lot of coming and going between the diplomate of Italy and Jugo- slavin.

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

SWITZER

LAND

CORSICA

Re-

All the ports of Jugoslavin look out on the Adriatic-Sp¥1, Susk, Dubrovnik, and Kotor.

For the Jugosliva, nay hint of trouble now in the Adriatle would be disastrous, for internally the Serbs and Croats, two of the three races making up the Kingdom, are at each other's throats more bitter- ly than ever.

The Croats want a wide measure of and now they want * ко

"That they have hinted that if they are not given it by the Central Government at Del-

well, then, they grude,

Arc nut averse to calling in a powerful neighbour to "protect" them. Be- member Czecho-Slovakia.

Jealous Of Each Othor IF you want to sum up Jugo- slovia generally, you can say that both Serbs und Croute are united in their haired of Germany and In their fear of Italy, but their Jealousy for each other is greater than either their hatreds or fears.

So, somebody wants to make troubic, there's plenty of dynamite lying loose in Jugoslavia. In that country, suved from Italian do-

GERMANY HUNGARY

TRENTO

SARDINIA

ITALY

RUMANIA

JUGOSLAVIA

GREECE

BULGARIA

TURKEY

DID YOU EVER WONDER?

Why the Pacific Ocean Is More Calm

on

Than the Atlantic?

According to one historical ue- November 25, 1520, count. Magellan "entered the Great South Sen, shedding tears of joy, as Pigafelta, an eyewitness, relates. when he recognised a limitable Admiring its placid

expanse.

surface

.. Inposed upon it the name it is forever to bear- the Pacifle (Peaceful) Ocean."

The Pacltle Const of the United States does seem, on the average, to be less frequently lashed with storins than our Atlantic seoboard. However, the coasts China and Japon do experience violent and destructive typhoons.

Whatever advantage of calm- ness the Pacifte may have over the Atlantic is due chiefly to its great size. The area of the Pacific is Kreater than that of the four con- tinents combined. Tho Atlantic Is the size of the only about half

INANITY FARE

Winston

Once convinced an Unbeliever

That he didn't suffer from:

war-fever

PACIFIC OCEAN

45,634,000

SOVARE MILES

FATLANTIC OCEAN:

41,321,000 SOURCE MILES

INDIAN OCEAN 29,340,000 SQUARE

MILED

In the areas glvert above, the Arctic, Mediterranean, eta, are Included in the Atlantic, and the Antorcika or Southern Ocean has been divided between the Pacific, Allantis, and Indian Oceans.

Pacile and less than a third as wide.

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The winds, tides, and currents brood less modified in the Pacife than in Burrower oceans, The tidal wave, originating at the Equator, makes its way northward through the Pacific almost without being obstructed. The average lide on the west coast of America is under 10 feet and the highest only 28 feet. In the Atlantic, how- ever, the tide in the Bay of Fundy reaches 00 feet or more, and the lide in the Bristol Channel rises 40 to 50 feet.

A potent cause of storms is the clash of great masses of warm air with other masses of cold air. The warin Gulf Stream, coming up the Atlantic Coast and crossing the ocean to Europe, heats the atr above it. Sturms urlse when this warm air encounters cold masses. of air from the Arctic.

The corresponding warm stream in the Pacific, the Japanese Cur- rent, travels northward post the coast of Japan and gives rise to storms off the coast of Alaska which, having little economic im- portance, pass relatively unnoticed.

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

relatively temperature

constant

and reduces the number and vlo- ience of the storms in such re- gions.

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

Anyway, ever since the war, Jugoslavia has been courted by Iwo ambitious. miltors, Italy and France.

For to France she is part of the Central European alitances against Germany. For Italy she is an out- let for her goods,

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

If Mussolint Eus more definite designs in the Adriatic, then this lady of 20 years will have to make up her mind,

Now for Italy. For that country Dalmatia hurls like an old wound - war wound,

Go back to 1915 when the na- tions Were

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

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

Outbid The Cormans

NOW Lord Grey, British Foreign Minister, outbld the Germans and Austrians, promised the Italluns the Austrian Tyrol and the Dal- matlan coast-excluding Flume-ift they would fight for the Aliles. 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 pence.

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 Fiume should be added to the spoils already promised.

Then President Wilson became stubborn, as he could when he wanted to be. No, said he, Italy should have the Tyrol, the Tren- tino, and the Dalmatlan cost only as far as Trieste.

Flume, he said, was a Slov port, send should go 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- it to the decisions of the pollti- elins elther in Paris or Ronte.

He was a little, bald airman- poet, called Gabriele d'Annunzio, İteru of young Italy, who had flown over Vienna during the war dropping manifestoes instead of

Austrians bombs urging the make peace.

to

He defermined to be strong where the politicians were weak. So in September, 1919. he com- mundeered every neroplane he could find, And with a band of men flew to Flume.

From the port he drove out the Allled army of occupation, de- clared Fiume Italian. IL was

it was dramatic, bul

also comie

орега.

He put his men into cloaks, put daggers in their belts, and crested 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 deserled to him from the Italian Navy, war heroes crowded around him. Neither 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- clam.

Bombarded By Flect

FOR three months d'Annunzio held out, until the Itailan 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 have looked across the Adriatic to what might have been.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. THERAPION NËÍ THERAPION NO.

THERAPION NĚ.3

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GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

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WOES SERVICE GAS,DIL JIR

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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 lie 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." again, "The people can be made to see even Heaven as Hell or the most wretched life as Paradise."

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HE has certainly put his philosophy into practice. He told the German people that Britain caused the war of 1914. He maintained that the German army was actually winning in He re- 1918. He evolved the idea of a super "Aryan" race. presented Germany as the sworn enemy of Soviet Russia. lenied that he wanted. Austria. Denied that he wanted any but the Germans of Czechoslavia. Denier in September, 1938, 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 lles. Lies told in u big way, usually with mam- moth parades, blaring bands and gigantic banners, so that the Gorman people were stunned and deafened into ac- cepting them as truth or into keeping their doubts to them- selves.

FOR THE TROUBLE about telling lies is to keep them 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. Wo rely upon the truth. We do so not only on moral grounds but be- are stubborn cause facts 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 independenco that Britons enjoy and the strength of character that it breeds. We are not foolish enough to change our well- proved polley 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 crase to menace us and all the world,

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HAVE utter confidence in British offcial news. Be on your guard ceaselessly against Nazi propaganda. Have not the slightest fear in heart or mind. THE TRUTH WILL WEN.

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