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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.

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

was at her

Month after month, by the meinest 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 intervened 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

ARE OFF

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, Cinno 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

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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- agreeable son-in-law have carried 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

the papers and the furniture

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

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

When at last victory is achieved by Allied arms, may these two sinister figures re- ceive punishment commen~ surate with the sorrow they have caused.

Italy's Position Is Impossible

ITALY'S position, in the

strategic sense, is about as bad as could be conceived. Taking her Navy first, she has rendy two battleships of 35,- 000 tons displacement and two more building, and two converted battleships of near- ly 24,000 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 num- 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 ward

BY HECTOR BYWATER

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 la well understood that her ultimate fate will depend on

the outcome of the war as a whole,

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Meanwhile, so far as naval movements

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, loader of the Canadian C. C. F. Party, 1939.

Reason governs the wise man, but the cudgel a fool. Italian Proverb.

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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 volco which carries conviction and weight with certain groups,-Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Through these three chan- nels nearly 80 por cent, of her - economic structure depends.

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

Incidentally, he has placed his newly founded East Afri- can empire in pawn, and made the Mediterranean: a Mare Clausum in a sense which probably few Italians re- cognise.

As long as Great Britain maintains a local prepon- Italian derance over tho Navy in the Mediter ranean, Italy will be bottled up in that son, and cut off from her Ethiopian empire.

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THE BRIDE

By Gertrude Mott

TN Anglo-Saxon "weddian"

I'meant to promise to marry

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

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

The Wedding Ring Primitive man wove a ring of reeds with which he bound himself to the bride's waist; this he bo lieved her spirit entered his body. Egyptians were the first to make use of the wedding ring. Rings were made váriously of iron, steel, brass, wood, rushes, leather, goki und silver.

The Word "Bride" 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 Varlous writers contend covering the bride with a vell showed submission to her husband; others that the vell, which dis-

loose-flying placed the

hair, symbolised freedom. Greck and Roman brides were completely covered by a large yellow vell.

The Bridal Bouquet

In France during the fourteenth century the wedding guests skir mished for the bride's garter, which she allowed to hang free so

be would'

scizable. caslly Several centuries Inter the bride

threw her stocking. Finally she came to throw the bridal bouquet, legend having it that the lucky damsel calching it would be the next bride,"

Why Throw Old Shoes

Among the Hebrews a man handed over his sandals as evi- dence of good faith in a bargain or exchange of property. Costing shoe probably siguided her father's transfer of authority over to her husband, the scaling of the bargain in good faith.

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Why Throw Rico?

The ancient custom of throwing wheat, later ree, after a married couple symbolizes wishes for fruitful union

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The Word Bridegroom The ward bride with the syllable groom added denotes

newly wedded man. Groorn meant a man of the serving class, hence "bride- grcom signifies the man who wolts upon the bride.

The Wedding Cako

The wedding cake originated in the ftoman "conturrectio," a mar- ringe form in which the bride and groom nie 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 Cown White?

Because in ancient times white denoted purity. The earliest Ro- 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 purlty, fidelity and love.

Why the Wedding Breakfast? Bride-ale ("ale" meaning feast) was the marriage fenat. Eating and drinking together wan sigul- ficant of good fellowship, friend- liness, and of forming a tie.

The Honeymoon

The honeymoon period is a our- 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 mon was the hardy friend who fought off the girl's pursuing protectors. The bridesmaids' duties were: tó dress and undress the bride and act as marriage witnera. This ovolved into the wedding proces-- sion.

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