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The Veteran

case.

July 15, 1940.

MUSSOLINI

AND HIS

ITALIANS

what would Hitler's next step be

IN JULY 1938 there were part of Hitler, to reconstruct divided Central Europe, which lay exposed rumours of a bad Italian to National Socialist pressure to harvest and Mussolini made wards the south-east, and which- one of the thundering, ag at the special request of Mussolini gressive speeches with which was c once and for all to guarantee the he is accustomed to pacify independence of Austria.

his people.

"Even should there be no bread," he roared, "wo will never I say never humble our selves so far as to beg help of

The Fascists were enthusiastic over this new grouping. All the worthies among the Black Shifts, the thin insignificant-looking chief of Home Home's foreign

Under poli Suvich, Secretary of State, Duce spoke to him; the Party Secret

came to attention each time the

any kind whatsoever from the ary, Achille Starace, dark and slen. so-called 'demo-plutocracies.'” der; the delegate to the League of On reading this, my thoughts his bald condottiere head; the Lon- Nations, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, with went back to April 1935. Tren, don Ambassador Grandl, and the

80 few years

ago, a friendly

Duce smiled at

the representa-

tives of theso

-by-

теку demo-E. LENNHOFF

plutocracles' be-l

neath the won-

equally bearded General of MIHOA, Tetruzzi; all beam. ed, when Musso- lin, whose bowler hat was a strange ridjunct to his black shirt, cheerl ly slapped Laval

derful paintings of the Palazzo on the back. Borghese on the Isola Bella In Lake Maggiore and concluded efforts to shut them off, crowded in Even the people who, despite all with them n peace pact-againat front of the hotel railings, were Germany.

highly pleased with the newly form- Ari friendship with the Western At noon and in the evening Powers, Mussolini personally took his

British and French guests, Mr. thunderous cries of Duce!". Ducci There was a genuine ring in their

MacDonald, Sir John Simon the Ducel and on this occasion there sky-scraper, M. Flandin, and really seemed no need for the cus- gipsy-faced M. Laval, in a fast tomary signals for applause, given by motor-boat to Stresa for lunch or the Alpini who held the crowd back, the little lieutenant in command of dinner.

►

And each time, as the states- men, with the Duce in front,

SIX months later I was in came goose-marching ashore along the narrow landing-stage Rome. The Stresa Front had to where the journalists an- collapsed during the debate, on xiously awaited them, the sanctions at Geneva and the faces of all shone with the glow with his Alpini somewhere be- little lieutenant was marching

of friendly understanding. tween Adoua and Adigrat in

There were positive results, Abyssinia, this time ordering too. For, at one of the first re- rounds not of applause, but of ceptions the Italian delegation shot, gave to the press Grazzi, the versatile little Minister of Pro- 'In front of the Eden Hotel a crowd paganda, gave us a slogan which of people were enjoying the sight of sounded most hopeful-Stresa taken down, lest it might arouse sus- 'Ill-omened name-plate being Front.'

picion that England's Foreign Minis- ter had some connection with the hotel.

its

FUNNY SIDE UP

**Look, Tony

* Abner Dean-

it's that polico dog again!”

The HISTORY

of CONVOY

ocean

by TAFFRAIL

Authorities

was common at sea in the mid- were again pressing for an unrestrict

CONVOY is no new thing. It The German Naval dle ages and at the time of the ed submarine campaign. upon all

ship Napoleonic Wars.

ping, by which it was hoped to break, Convoys homeward bound from the 1917. If 600,000 tons of shipping Britain's resistance by the autumn of West Indies might consist of 100 to were destroyed a month, and about his guarded against the enemy double this quantity of neutral ship- privateers by a few men-of-war. Ing were scared off the sea through There are records of Baltlé convoys terrorism, the war should be won in of over 500 sail

five months. If America did enter merchant vessels are at sen in every ber 23, 1916, Germany decided to be

At the present time, on any typical the war, they thought, it would be day, something over 1,500 British too late to be effective. On Decem- EVEN Shirley Temple has

are in harbours all over the navigable

in the world. Another 700 odd gin unrestricted submarine warfare been put alightly into the back-

globe. presently to resume

the merchant ships of every their upon ground by the war. But she is

nation found inside a greatly extend-. voyages. These ships travel on over. 85,000 miles of orcan near the end of her tether in any

trade routes; ed war zone, and in time of war it is the duty of There was no misunderstanding her the Royal Navy to protect them. determination to use her U-bonta Advancing years tell their

IN 1914 Gur- relentless tale. Shirley has

ruthlessly and in many found

defiance of all the smiled through ten summers,

new means of at-

accepted rules of trade. tacking

war. The losses had and is beginning to feel the

Submarings

mounted steadily, shown that they

December saw the burden of stardom and of time.

In a window opposite was a poster possessed for

sinking of 107 HD threw the words, the ap- French perfumes no longer sold greater powers of

British and Allied In another year or so, it is plicability of which unfortunate here, and in front of the Cafe

4-going 'endur-

ships, and Jon- ubry 180. During February 200 suggested, Shirley will retire,ly survived scarcely a month, Aragne, the centre of international rance than had been created to

like an order at the heads of the life on the Corse Umberto, sat crowds them, and in February, 1918, the vessels of 489,000 tons were sent to The veteran, having scaled the crowds, short and abrupt, just as badges in their button-holes."

of German, Exporters with swastika German Admiralty declared that all the bottom by U-boats, irr

the waters surrounding Great Britain March 338, ships of 524,000 tons. greatest heights of the screen the day before he had an

and Ireland, including the whole of nounced: 'Cheerful tone," In an of the war enthusiasm, of which garded as a war zone. All Allied American vessels were also held up and had two hemispheres at her equally monosyllabic parade-ground the Italian papers gave such glowing the English Channel, would be re- and attacked, and for this and other description, I could see nothing. merchant vessels found within the reasons, including a German proposal feet, will retire and relax after volce.

zone would be destroyed without "it to Mexico that she should invite years of crowded effort. Having

always being possible to avoid danger Japan to attack the United States if to the crew and passengers. .Owing rested

Allies, a wave of anger awept over awhile-say for fivej news, and highly important raws at the Pantheon to the Piazza Venezia, also to unforeseen incidents to which the latter came in on the side of the minutes-she may begin to take that, it was in actual fact a command the scene of Fascist marches and naval warfare is Hlable, it is im America. On April war was de-

for Italian newspapermen.

parades, echoed daily to the thunder- possible to avoid attacke being made elated upon Germany. up the business of life itself.

ing tramp of marching demonstrators on neutral ships in mistake for those The press conferences held by the Yet "the man in the street," the of the enemy."

A few days later Admiral Sims, other delegations were means of get- simple, Industrious, modest likeable This was the first announcement of of the United States Navy, was sec-

golden existence the charming of asking questions, but there given ly and with some disapproval.

by the Italians seemed to be for the child has led (in the cause of sole purpose of handing out the day's veracity, it must be noted that slogan.

While for us foreigners the an- To be sure, the Via dell' Impero, nouncement of the 'Stresa Front was that grandiose avenue leading from

and

So far it is a queer sort of ting Information, explanations, and Roman, 'regarded the war apothetical- an unrestricted submarine campaign, Jag Sir John Jellicoe in London. The

000

she is also the pet aversion of a This, too, Faselsm and Nazism DESPITE all the horrible tales have le commons in Italy as in Ger- told about the Abyssinians and section of cinema enthusiasts), many there is only opinion turning out picture after picture which may find expression. In the the war of defence against 'mur-

press. Cheerful tone!'

dictated derous bands of robbers' which which, with mathematical cer- Minister Grazzi, and cheerful, tone had been forced' on the Italians, our French I met no signs of hatred among for the conference, for tainty, has swelled the bank and English friends, for the new the people.

front, was the unanimous refrain of balance of everyone concerned. every Italian paper. Even Shirley's warmest ad- mirers realised that this could not go on for ever. Into her

was to

two great seamen discussed the situa-

•

and let us look out for ourselves."

IN the first quarter of 1915, tion, the American saying that it thirty-eight British merchant looked as though the Germans were winning. Sir John agreed, 'unless the ships were sunk, including the shipping losses could be stopped, 'and' liner "Falaba," outward bound stopped soon, for West Africa, torpedoed by Was there no solution, Suns asked. U-28 as passengers and crew

"Absolutely none that we can sec now." Sir John Jellicoe.replied. were embarking into the boats.. Men, women and children were thrown into the water. There was a death-roll of 104. A worse fatality Secretary of the Navy in ADMIRAL Sims wrote to the occur in May, when the

"After trying i was torpedoed without Washington "The Abyssinians are mothers' sons,

Within twenty minutes the various methods of controlling too," said the common people, and great ship had plunged bows first to turned a deaf ear to all the stories of the bottom, to leave the sea black shipping, the British Admiralty atrocities committed by this robber with drowning people. Rescue ships now believe the beat policy to be people.

picked up 800; but 1,198 perished,

a, of one of dispersion. whom, 201 wero women and 94 in- fants or

The Admiralty has had frequent. mall children.

i conferences with merchant masters The explosion of those torpedoes and sought their advice. Their most. reverberated throughout the civilised world. The people of the United unanimous demand is: 'Give us a gun American citizens had been drowned They are also insistent that it is. Im-- in the "Lusitania,” and already practicable for merchant vessels to. American vessels had been attacked. Proceed in convoy, at least in any There was an exchange of notes considerable numbers, due principally

With their view 1 French

submarine campaign was abandoned, ordinate officers. Germany feared bringing the United do not personally agree, but believe

that with a little experience merchant. Slates into the war against her. Shirley's finale may be like Maginot line,

vessels could safely and sufficiently Even sa the situation was that of many another artist... gathered over

'Black Facts' was not a song of sufficiently serious. From the out. well steam in open formation But 210W they were · conferring long delayed and punctuated there under the chairmanship of the hate, nor had it anything of the break of the war until the end of 1010 The merchant ship losses

Duce and building the

Stresa

pathetic heroism or naked militariam Britain had lost through German were terrible. No fewer than 430. with farewell appearances that Pack, which was to secure European of the official songs of the Party. action 518 merchant vessels, and her ships were sunk by U-boats. On the Allies had Jost 420. As Lord Jellicoe blackest day of that worst month of seem to stretch like an endless peace, by every practical mesos'

was: to write later..."It was clear the war, eleven British merchant. chain into eternity.

gainst any arbitrary action on the..

that some method of counteracting vessels and eight fishing craft were the submarine must be found, and destroyed. One out of every four found quickly, if the Allied cause ships that left the United Kingdom was to be saved from disaster during that month never returned. The submarine campaign was The gravest perii which ever threatened the population of this country,

as well as of the whole Empire."

Slates were convulsed with anger..

DESPITE a certain amount of

The Itinerant musicians, however, life, as into that of others, a nervousness the atmosphere in crisis must come, a parting of

Stresa was really gratifying. sang a song, which faithfully repro- A month before, Hitler had made duced the real national character the ways. Not even the Holly-that sensational speech, in which he stripped of all its martial Fascist

trimmings Faccetta wood experts can guarantee that announced the reintroduction of con-

neral they scription and in this way tore up sang. Black Faces, a modest little a child star will continue her one of the most important pages of song of an Abyssinian girl who, scendency through her teens, the Versailles Treaty.

from a mountain in her country Mussolini had made the demon looked with longing for the first Then Shirley would be judged by strative answer of calling up a quar- glimpse of the approaching Italian between the United States and Ger- to dimeulty in eontrolling their speed other standards and innumerable.

'Plane Hits Barrage; 3 Killed

even the number of

had

multiplied the along the Via dell' Impero past King manning the and Duce, once peace had been con-

louds had cluded.

Aircraft Engineer Charged

Film Fans To Pay

New Tax

The matter of convoy had been considered at the British Admiralty at various stages of the war, but the general consensus of opinion was

warships to provide the

Cinema' sent prices are likely to rbe as a result of the new Purchase The pilot, navigator, and observerį Charged at Kingston with distri- of a bomber were killed late one buling without permission copies of which is to be applied to the To combat the menace Lord against it. There wore insufficient night recently when the planer, after the Fascist paper, Action, at an air hire of films. striking the cable of a barrage bal-craft works, Thomas Madeley Finnic,

It is expected that the tax will be Admiralty as First Sea Lord at night or in bad weather were con

Jellicoe was appointed to the the dimculties of station-keeping at loon over a Midland town, crashed in 41, described as an aircraft engineer. 16 per cont. flames in the middle of a cricket field. of Oakley-street, Chelsea, was TC-

the end of 1916.

sidered Insuperable fn. merchant Petrol tanks exploded and bursting manded in custody!:

The tax will be imposed direct German Bubmarines were then steamers of varying types and ammunition shot into the air...

Detective-Inspector, H: Stutlart

Stutlart on Alm rentals, and the exhibitors ranging the sea from Archangel to speeds. Delays would also be in- said that: Finnie: when charged at will have to devise their own means the West coast of Africa, from the volved in leading cargoes, wille the The ground where the plane came down is in the centre of a thickly the police station said, "That is quite of getting it back from the customers, eastern seaboard of North America speed of the convoy was the speed of « right, but I àld not think I was do- This is regarded as a matter of across the Atlantic and through the Ita alayest ship,-- Merevoer, the prož populated district. No damage was ing anything wrong. I am most de considerable dificulty if attendances Nediterranean to the shores of Aalu tection afforded by an escort was done to surrounding property.

cidedly pro-British."

are not to suffer seriously.

Minor.

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