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August 15, 1940.

By Walt Disney

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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 critle of the Duce-pointed out how Italy would come into the war when France

at her wenkest.

WHY

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 Allied hostility. risk open Now he has intervened for two reasons.

One reason is that he be leves 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

GLOVES

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

Sir to 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

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- agreeable son-in-law have carried out their confidence trick on our diplomats.

ut once bo 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 undersland 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- ance which has brought war back to the world and misery to millions of people. The themselves Italians yelled

hourse, and must now suffer for their readiness to forget the teachings of men Garibaldi and Mazzini.

like

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 Mussolini and his megalomania.

France is desperately hard pressed. Her generals arc confident and the courage of her soldiers is beyond praise, but ono.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- tucking. 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 last victory is achieved by Allied arms, may these two sinister figures re- ceive punishment surate with the sorrow they

have caused.

commen-

Italy's Position Is Impossible

Irategic sense, is about TALY'S position; in the

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 destroyera, 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, exag

nt- gerated, importance la tached in Italy. Last year the Italian Navy could muster :76,000 officers and men, bat this number may have been increased since the outbreak of the war,

BY HECTOR

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

BYWATER

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 oven in a righteous cause.- Schiller.

There is no redemptive power in physical force.-J. S. Woodsworth, leader of the Canadian C. C. F. Party, 1939: Reason governs the wise man, but the cudgel a fool- Italian Proverb.

tub.

We accomplish more by prudence than by force.-Tack- He who strikes first admits that his ideas have been given out-Chincse wisdom.

Force may subdue, but love guins, 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 volee which carries conviction and weight with certain groups. Mrd Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Through these three chan- uele 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 Malta and Cyprus may be determined by the events over which Musso- lini, 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 n Mare Clausum In a sense which probably few Italians re- cognise.

As long as Great Britain maintaing a local prepon- derance over the Italian in the Mediter- ranean, Italy will be bottled up in that sea, and cut off from her Ethiopian etapire...

Navy

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A DOG!

WALT DISNEY.

HERE COMES

THE BRIDE

By Gertrude Mótt

TN Anglo-Saxon "weddian”

IN

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 marringe.

The Trousseau

The word "trousseau," the bridal outfll, comes from the old French "trousse," u 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 walst; this be be lieved her spirit entered his body. Egyptians were the first to make use of the wedding ring Rings were made variously of iron, steel, 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

docs a Bride wear a Veil? that Various witters contend

vcil covering the bride with a showed submission to her husband; others that the vell, which dis- hair, placed the loose-flying

yinbolsed freedom. Greek and Roman brides were completely covered by a large yellow vell.

The Bridal Bouquet In France during the fourteenth century the wedding guests shir- mished for the bride's garter, which she allowed to hang free so It would be cusily seizable. Several centuries later the bride threw her stocking. Finally she came to throw the bridal bouquet, legend having it. that the lucky damsel catching it would be the next bride.

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Why Throw Old Shoes- Among the Hebrews n handed over his sandals as evi- dence of good faith in a barguin or exchange of property. Casting shoe probably signified her 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 word bride with the syllable denotes 4 newly groom added wedded man. Groom meant a man of the serving class, hence bride- groom signifies the man who waits upun the tride,

The Wedding Cake The wedding cake originated in the Roman "conforreatio," 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 while denated purity. The earliest Ro- mans wore white on sacred days ond days of reipicing.

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Why "Something Bluq”?

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-olc ("ale" meaning feast) Was the marriage feast. Eating and drinking together was signi ficant of good fellowship, friend- lness, and of forming a tie.

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 beglas 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 wore to dress and undress the bride and act Asurringe witness. This evolved into the wedding proces sion..

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