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by

DOUGLAS WOODRUFF

richer by striking lightning at home, but it is one in which inilitary blows.

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THE Italians, in the opinion of

those well placed to judge, are strikingly deficient in war -material for a long war-and by long is meant more than six months.

The Duce is not likely to

AS expected by most of the

tities and decorations are more gamble everything on the Ger It is an aversion which

abundant than lire. The salaries mane not merely winning but. prophets the enemy has delivered runs through all classes, but

are small, and sometimes they winning very quickly this sum- the first great blow of the now when you ask why if the IN the North they think of war are added to by unauthorised er

But the German argument un- a matter for armies, in means. British Isles, public opinion is so definite

To these young Fascists the doubtedly has weight that, for Although they have advanced to it is also ineffective, Italians the South as a matter of navies.

lot with Germany, and if Ger- the assault along the entire front always tell you sadly that in The sense of being shut in in prospect of war is the prospect good or ill, Italy has cast in her

the Mediterranean by Britain of promotion, of commands at from Abbeville on the const to some other part of the pen- and France is more alive at home and overseas. But it is many is allowed to succumb Italy will get short shift from. Amiens, along the Somme-Aisne insula there is more feeling Naples and the other points true that even inside the party the victors and will have to set- upon which the Italian fleet is and its younger ranks an ele tle down to an indefinite life of front through Amiens and La in favour of war.. Fere, with their right wing In the North they say that based.

ment of apprehension mingles operating In the vicinity of the South holds the people who There is much confidence in with the fascination of Nazi patronage, and servitude be

cause her leaders were not men: Sedan, it is not to be supposed think of war as naval triumphs the flect, more than in the Army, methods. that the offensive which began and command of the Mediter- because the fleet is a profes- The Duce, who was a school- enough to see and seize the won- sional service, whereas every master before he was a journal- derful opportunity which the In the South they say that the one is in the Army, and men ist, has conducted for a quarter genius of Hitler has created for

them. known-to-be-prepared-for-battle-on strength of the Fascist regime hold commissions and find auto-of-a-century-a-campaign-to, I think, still useful to- combat this by making it as plain has always been in the North, matic promotion after exceed- educate the been finally joined on the front that Milan was its home, that ingly slight military experience. keener sense of public things.

He has succeeded in the last as we can that we do not think German influence is naturally But the feeling for or against first selected we may see the stronger in North Italy and anti- war is very much a matter of six years, particularly since the of Gorman Nazism and Italian attempt to break through with the Fascism as just the same, or I have just come back from forty, so many of whom would that their livelihoods are not lump them under the one idea We should show them in my is on au entirley different front. a month spent travelling about have emigrated if the United only small but are much too de. of "Faselam." The details so far received are Italy, in six of the main cities, States had not closed the gates choose to think about them.

pendent on what foreigners

opinion, that we know the re- scanty, as is always the case on from Milan and Genon in the just as they approached young the first day, and the precise object North to Naples and Palermo in manhood. They are all in the stand in their white marble in antipathetic peoples, that Fasc

The tablets against sanctions gimes are as different as the two- of the German High Command the South, but spending many country, knowing at second

the smallest Italian towns, but iam is not the expression of a. must still be a matter for specu-days in Rome.

hand of the opportunities an more important than that turn people that loves to be disci lution. But, their attack at pre- I found Milan a busy place, earlier generation

enjoyed, ing-point was the larger, moral plined for collective and warlike sent is split into two halves and in which it is difficult to get a knowing in their family budgets to be deduced from it, that Italy tasks, but is an individual crea- there is a "dead sector" between room in an hotel, full not mere- the importance of the remit was held in leading-strings be- tion, the violent attempt to rec- the two spearheads, which appear general fear of what the Ger- which had

ly of the fear of war but of a tances from the United States cause she was not mistress even tify the ingrained Italian ten- man alliance will mean for ceased. and Soissons. At present it seems Italy.

all sectors and when issue has

mechanised units develop sudden-

to be directed towards Amiens

as if the Germans intend____to launch a direct attack on Paris

from those two directions-the YOU cannot forget in Milan

natural corridors to Paris which

the Germans followed in 1914 and again in 1918.

that you are in the capital of a country that has been, like of the Low Countries, one the traditional battlefields of Europe.

All the reports concur in declaring that the German operation The Milanese do not want to 'constituted no surprise, as did be that again, nor the scene of their first offensive against the the striking victories of some Lowlands and France last month, new Napolcon, German or A movement in both the Amiens French or Italian. and Soissona areas has boon con- You are reminded also that fidently expected for the past tow the memories of the Austrian days, and our cables from the war overlordship are very much alive.

told 01 heavy German

front

concentrations behind these two There are plenty of people still objectives. The French leaders living who began life ns Aus- express themselves as sattaned trian subjects.

with the reauita so far attained by When the Milaneso read of the defenders and should the the stealthy and ruthless way situation remain as it Was this the Germans had seized Den- morning there will bo overymark, Norway, Holland and possible reason for gratification. Belgium, they thought about At the same timo it must be Milan. remembered that the Gormana have not hurled in their mechanis though privately, that the Axis Many Italians argued frankly, ed strongik yot: the real testing has high value as a defensivo time will come when French tanks opposo German tanks. The fight-measure against Germany, but ing to-day is only sixty-live miles that was before the Inter de- from Paris and mechanised units, velopments of the German doc- once they break through, can move. trine of "preventive custody." swiftly, as has already been The North feels the blockade demonstmted in this Blitzkrieg, more than the South and the We are convinced, as over, that great difficulty of paying for General Waygand will be able to importing war materials. But counter any monace that dovolopa it is also the home of indus- when the Germans do bring their trialists, of men with a full tanks to the fore. The altuation knowledge of the complexities of will almost certainly develop world trade and no imple: illu- within the next 24 hours.

sions that people can become!

now BO

Italians into n

largely of the Mediterranean and be deney to let all Governments go cause Great Britain held both hang and to think no more about. The Fascist party appeared the ocean gateways of the inland them than we in England think: to provide an alternative career sea.

of the borough council...We.. should make it plain that we are not out to destroy their regime

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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DELIVERY ROCH

By Lichty because it annoys us by making

"I'm certainly glad I'm not a man and have to go through

'all 'of, that!?

them stronger, as they are told.

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THE Duce is not our friend to- day, but most of the people: have no hard feelings, although they will always prefer their ver-- sion of their action in Abyssinia. and Spain to that of their Eng-- lish critics.

But the House of Savoy and the Papacy are highly popular in Italy.to-day, and there is, good reason for this. They are. felt to be forces making for peace. : and possible centros of further reconstruction if the worst: should happen. But just as it is. said that "men are made by their enomics," so are regimes, and". the strength of the Fascist re- gime has been the uncritical" denunciation of it in the West,

If the Italians have the re-. sources in themselves to modify or change it, they will not do so. nt foreign dictation, but becauso the forces which can rely on French and British support feel encouraged to take a hand against the forces which aro nourished and encouraged from i Germany.

For we have had, and wo, stil}^ have, good friends inside ther party as well as the very many. outside.