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NOW AT LAST THE

YEARS ago

Mussolini

made a wise remark

to me.

It seldom happened, he said, that a man who started a war was still in power to sign the treaty of peace that ended it.

Throughout the world millions upon millions of people will hope that his statement will apply to him. Hitler has used hy- pocrisy as a diplomatic weapon with remarkable astuteness. The excuses he has produced for put- ting peaceful and progres- sive nations under his "protection" will be a source of suffering and humiliation to the German people for generations to

come.

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But Mussolini has acted with cynicism without parallel. One of his spokes- men, Signor Ansaldo-who, has successfully forgotten the months he spent exiled on the Lipari islands as a critic of the Duce-pointed out how Italy would come into the war when-France-was-at--her-

wenkest,

Month after month, by the meanest set of menaces that you could find in the largest history book, the Duce has weakened the Allied effort without having the courage to risk open

Allied hostility. Now he has jutervened for two reasons.

One reason is that he be- lieves the Allies will lose the war and he wants his share of the spoils. If Great Britain needed. a fresh initiative to

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destroy this curse of Fascism this fact should give it.

Month after month at the urgent request of authorities who failed to learn the futility of appeasement after Munich, we of the British Press have hesitated to call Mussolini the coward and bully that he is. We have read-his-bombastic speeches without protest. We have vainly called attention to the way in which war materials

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While Mussolini played up to Hitler, Ciano played up to the British. If we would be patient and polite, he assured us, Italy would keep out of the war; Goering used to give similar

assurances to Sir Nevile Henderson, and in both cases the result has, not sur- prisingly, been the same.

In our desire to avoid-of- fence we may find that we have lost valuable initial ad- vantages, The Negus should

By Vernon Bartlett

poured into Germany through Italian ports.

Now at last the gloves are off. We can tell the truth about this man without in turn being told that it would be unpatriotic to criticise him. The truth is that ever since the war began he and his dis- son-in-law' have agreeable earried out their confidence trick on our diplomats.

at once be sent to the Abyssi- nian border; the Fleet should at once attack Rhodes; Naples and Genoa should at once be bombed; General Franco should at once be told, in po- lite but plain language, that we can understand neutrality but cannot tolerate "non-bel- ligerence."

Eighteen years ago on the Piazza Barberini I watched

insolent swash-buckling young Fascists making bonfires of

WALT DIEN

HERE COMES

THE BRIDE

the papers and the furniture By Gertrude Mott.

taken from the offices of their political opponents. They set an example of mean intoler ance which has brought war back to the world and misery to millions of people. The Italians yelled themselves hoarse, and must now suffor for their readiness to forget the teachings of men like Garibaldi and Mazzini.

Great Britain and France, struggling for their existence in a war that

was none of their own making, cannot- af- ford to make a distinction between the Italian leaders and the Italian people.

One may hope that Italian in this country will be treated with tolerance, for theirs is not the responsibility. But the Italians of Italy must now pay heavily for their hysteri- cal support of Mussolini and his megalomania.

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France is desperately hard pressed. Her generals confident and the courage of her soldiers is beyond praise, but one cannot yet gauge the effect upon her of this stab in the back.

The semi-circle which the Germans are drawing round her capital may compel her Government to leave. Paris. But there will probably be in France, as there is in Great Britain, a certain sense of re- lief that this long-threatened attack has taken place.

Hitler, it was suid recently, attacks without warning: Mussolini warns without at- tacking. Now even that dis- tinction between them has disappeared. They stand to- gether as blatant aggressors from whom we could expect no mercy at all were they to win.

When at Inst viclory is achieved by Allied arms, muy these two sinister figures re- commen- ceive punishment Burate with the sorrow they

lave caused.

Italy's Position Is Impossible

TALY'S position, in

the

I strategie sense, is about BY HECTOR BYWATER

as bad as could be conceived. Taking her Navy first, she has ready two battleships of 36,- 000 tons displacement and two more building, and two converted battleships of near- ly 21,000 tons.

She has in addition seven 10,000-ton cruisers, with eight-inch guns, plus a fair number of light cruisers, armed with six-inch guns, numerous destroyers, and well over 100 submarines.

These figures do not include the large but unknown numIS. ber of motor torpedo boats, to which, in my opinion, oxag- gerated importance is at- tached in Italy. Last year the Italian Navy could muster 75,000 officers and men, but this number may have been increased since the outbreak of the war.

Strategically Italy's position

is impossible, unless first she can force the Suez Canal, and- secondly the Straits of Gib- raltar. Malta may become a more or less easy prey, but it is well understood that her ultimate fate will depend on

the outcome of the war as a whole.

Meanwhile, so far as naval movements aro concerned, Italy will find herself bottled up in the cast at Port Said and the west of Gilbraltar, not to speak of the Dardanelles.

Quotable Quotes on Force

Force is not a remedy-John Bright.

Force is not a fearful thing even'in a righteous cause.--- Schiller.

There is no redemptive power in physical force.-J. S. Woodsworth, leader of the Canadian C. C. F. Party, 1989. Reason governs the wise man, but the cudgel a fool- Italian Proverb.

We accomplish more by prudence than by force.-Taci- tus.

He who strikes first admits that his ideas have been given out. Chinese wisdom.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he who forgives first wins the laurel-William Penn.

It is unfortunately true that we still live in a world where force is the only volce which carries conviction and. weight with certain groups. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,

Through these three chan- nela nearly 80 per cent. of her economic structure depends.

What action Turkey may take in the present crisis need not be dwelt on here, but this much may be said: that the temporary fate of Malia and Cyprus may be determined by the events over which Musso- lini, obviously against the advice of his naval strategists, lina plunged his country.

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Incidentally, he has placed his newly founded East Afri- can empire in pawn, and made the Mediterránean a. Mare Clausum in

a sense which probably few Italians re- cognise,

As longus, Great Britain. maintains 2 local prepon- dorance over the Italian

the Navy in

Mediter- ranean, Italy will be bottled up in that sea, and cut off from her Ethiopían empire.

TN Anglo-Saxon, "weddian"

I meant to promise to marry.

from "wed," a pledge. The pledge was usually horses, cattle or a ring for the girl's right hand which was put on her left hand after marriage.

The Trousseau.

The word "trousseau," the bridal uulit, comes from the old French "trousse," a bundle the dowry of the bride of olden times from her father to her husband.

The Wedding Ring Primitive man wove n ring of reeds with which he bound himself to the bride's waist; this he be- lieved her spirit entered his body. Egyptians were the first to make use of the wedding ring Rings were made variously of iron, sice), brass, wood, rushes, leather, gold and silver.

The Word "Brido"

Bride is derived from the Anglo- Saxon "bryd" the signification of which is to be "carried home," from the custom of the bridegroom carrying a bride to his house, Why does a Bride wear a Veil? that Various writers contend

veil covering the bride with a showed submission to her husband; others that the vell, which dis- placed the loose-dying hoir, symbolized freedom. Greek and Roman brides were completely covered by a large yellow veil

The Bridal Bouquet In France during the fourteenth century the wedding guests akir- garier, mished for the bride's

which she allowed to hang free so it would be casily scizable. Several centuries later the bride threw her stocking. Finally the camo to throw the bridal bouquet; legend having it that the lucky damsel catching It would be the next bride.

Why Throw Old Shoes

Hebrews ย ΣΤΗΛΕΣ Among the handed over his sandals us evi- dence of good faith in a bargain or exchange of property. Casting signified her shoe probably father's transfer of authority over to her husband, the sealing of the bargain in good faith.

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Why Throw Rico?

The ancient custom of throwing wheat, later rice, after a married couple symbolises wishes for a fruitful union.

The Word Bridegroom The ward bride with the syllable newly groom added denotes a wedded man Groom meant a man of the serving class, hence bride- groom signifies the man who waits upon the bride.

The Wedding Cake The wedding cake originated in the 'Roman "confarreatio," a mar- riage form in which the bride and groom ate together a cake which symbolised plenty. Gradually this evolved into the wedding cake which the bride must cut to pre- serve her prosperity and happiness, Why is the Gown White?

Because in ancient times white denoted purity. The earliest No- inans wore white on sacred days and days of rejoicing.

Why "Something Blue"?

This is an ancient custom of the brides of Israel who wore a blue ribbon in the borders of their fringed robes, blue denoting purity, fidelity and love.

Why the Wedding Breakfast?

Bride-ale ("ale" meaning feast) was the marriage feast. Eating and drinking together was signi- fleant of good fellowship, friend- liness, and of forming a tic.

The Honeymoon

The honeymoon period is a sur- vival of marriage by capture, when the husband kept his wife hidden to prevent her from being found by relatives. Some claim that the moon, no sooner being full begins to wane, so does wedded love after the "honey-month."

The Bridal Procession In primitive days the best man was the hardy friend who fought off the girl's pursuing protectors, The bridesmaids' duties were to dress and undress the bride and act as marriage witness. This evolved into the wedding process. slon.

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