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AS expected by most of the It is an aversion which prophets the enemy has delivered runs through all classes, but the first great blow of their new
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DOUGLAS WOODRUFF
richer by striking lightning at home, but it is one in which military 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.
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The Duce is not likely to
titles and decorations are more gamble everything on the "Ger- abundant than lire. The salarica mans not merely winning but. are small, and sometimes they winning very quickly this sum-
offensive against the French and when you ask why if the TN the North they think of war are added to by anauthorised mer.
But the German argument un-
the German plan. The enemy ate.
first selected we
may see the
attempt to break through with the
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them.
as a matter for armies, in means, not against the 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. the aamult along the entire from 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 lot with Germany, and if Ger from Abbeville on the coast 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- front through Amiens and Ia in favour of war.
upon which the Italian fleet is and its younger ranks an ele- tle down to an indefinite life of Fere, with their right
ment of apprehension mingles wing In the North they say that based. 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 fleet, more than in the Army, methods.
The Duce, who was a school enough to see and seize the won- that the offensive which began and command of the Mediter because the fleet is a profes yesterday discloses the whole of ranean.
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 strength of the Fasciat regime hold-commissions-and-find-auto of a century a campaign to It is, I think, still-useful-to- known to be prepared for battle on
combat this by making it as plain all sectors and when issue has has always been in the North, matic promotion after exceed educate the Italians into been finally joined on the front that Miinn 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 But the feeling for or against German influence is naturally
Fascism as just the same, or French feeling also more alive. age. Italy is full of men under at their livelihoods are not lump them under the one idea stronger in North Italy and anti- war is very much a matter of six years, particularly since the of German Nazism and Italian
great crials, in making them feel mechanised units develop sudden-
I have just come back from forty, so many of whom would
We should show them in my ly on an entirloy different front. a month spent travelling about have emigrated if the United only small but are much too de- of "Fascism."
what foreigners pendent on far received are Italy, in six of the main cities, States had not closed the gates choose to think about them. The details so
opinion, that we know the re- scanty, as is always the case on from Milan and Genoa in the just as they approached young
The tablets against sanctions gimes are as different as the two 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- of the German High Command the South, but spending many country, knowing at second the smallest Italian towns, but ism is not the expression of a must still bo a matter for specu-days in Rome.
hand of the opportunities an more important than that turn people that loves to be discl lation. 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 sont 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-
tify the ingrained Italian ten- the two spearheads, which appear general fear of what the Ger- which
ly of the fear of war but of a tances from the United States was held in leading-strings be- tion, the violent attempt to rec-
cause she was not mistress oven had now BQ largely of the Mediterranean and be dency to let all Governments go to be directed towards Amions
alliance will mean man and Soissons. At present it seems Italy.
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 as if the Germans intend to
We of the borough council. -to provide an alternative career- Ben.- launch a direct attack on Paris
should make it plain that we are not out to destroy their regime from these two directions-the natural corridors to Paris which the Germans followed in 1914 and again in 1918.
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YOU cannot forget in Milan
that you are in the capital of a country that has been, liko the Low Countries, one of the traditional battlefields of All the reports concur in Europe. declaring that the German operation The Milanese, do not want to constituted--no-aurprise,-as-did. be-that again nor the scene_of their first offensive against tho the striking victories of some Lowlands and Franco last month. new
German
Napoleon,
or
A movement in both the Amions French or Italian. and Solusons areas has been con-
You are reminded also that fidently expected for the past few the memories of the Austrian days, and our cables from the war overlordship are very much alive. front told of heavy Gorman
concentrations behind these two There are plenty of people still objectives. The French leaders living who began life as Aus- express themselves as satiated trian subjects.
with the results so far attained by When the Milanese read of the defenders and should the the stealthy and ruthless way aituation remain as it Wan this the Germans, had seized Den- and morning there will be every mark, Norway, Holland possibly reason for gratification. Belgium, they thought about At the sam timo It must bo Milan.
time will come when French tankā
remembered that the Gormons Many Italians argued frankly, havo not hurled in their mechanis- though privately, that the Axis cd strength yet: the real testing has high value as a defensive oppose German tanks. The fight-mensuro against Germany, but ing to-day is only sixty-Ave 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 : bein The North feels the blockade demonstrated in this Biltzaring more than the South and the We are convinced, as evor, that great difficulty of paying for General Weygand, will be able to importing war materials. But counter any menace that develops it is also the home of indus- when the Germans do bring their trinista, of man with a full tanks to tho, fore. The altuation knowledge of the complexities of will almost, curtainly, develop world train and no limple flu- within the naxt 24 hour sons that people cat bestmat
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them stronger, as they are told.
THE Duce is not our friend to- day, but most of the people have no hard feelings, although they will always profer 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 today, and there la good reason for this. They are felt to be forces making for peace and possible centres of further reconstruction if the worst, should happen. But just as it is said that men are made by their enemies," 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 ro- sources in themselves to modify or change it, they will not do at foreign dietation, but because the forces which can rely on French and British Kipport encouraged to taker
the forces nourished and encourd'ș Karmany,
we have hinda!
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