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DOES ITALY'S

KING SUPPORT

MUSSOLINI?

FOR

the

to feed, OR years the huge bulk of slender Indeed. She has

the Italian Dictator has supply and reinforce what remains of Graziant's army in Libyn. How dwarfed the small, frail figure of will she do it when the British fleet

so successfully mastered the King of Italy. His thunder- ing, braggart voice has drowned the words of wisdom from the tight lips of Victor Emmanuel.

has. Mediterranean?

These are questions, the neutrals say, which are asked in Italy itself. In spite of Musolini's repealed boasts to the contrary, even before The Klag has been nimest forgel- the war there were large numbers ten by the outside world, but he is of Italians who were not Fascists. not forgotten in Italy. Many power- Important people in the forces ful people there remember there was well as the common folk in the towns a House of Savoy long before the and villages did not suscribe to the world heard of Benito Mussolini, the "all-powerful" Blackshirts. blacksmith's son, and they believe

there will be a day-not far distant

In 1935, when de Bono looked as

when the House of Savoy will if he might carry on the war with again be at the head of a dictator Abyssinia for years and bring Italy less Italy,

down into poverty, Mussolini was res to send out luctantly compelled Recently word has been coming Badegin to finish off the compat. through neutral channels that the He knew Badoglio was a much better King and the Dictator do not see eye man than de Bono, but refused to Disastrous des have him becouse he was no Fascist to eye about the war. feats to the Halian navy and army but a loyal subject of King Victor. add strength to King Victor's post-

ilon. A neutral writer a few weeks. The famous Marshal Badoylle, who go sail that "the King's advice has until recently was Commander-in- been disregarded, and Mussolint Is Chief of Dalian forces and a man now ging because it turned out to with a big following in Italy, always Blackshirt. refused in become be right."

By John Hammond

What the advice was he did not There are many such men in Italy, say, but it was sure to be good, for who would rather see the positions Queen Victoria, a good judge of men, ef King and dictator reversed, and said, "Young Victor Emmanuel is the who feel that the war, in any event,

will be a losing one for Italy. must intelligent Prince of Europe."

It is well known that Victor Em- Some months ago it was authorita- manuel only accepted the dictator- tively stated that one of the King's save bloodshed daughters had openly protested about ship of Mussolini

"Rank foolishness," sho In 1922. He could have withstood the war. Mussolini, perhaps successfully, but called it. No doubt many heard and he remembered the age-old adage of inwardly digested her remarks. the Vatican, "Make haste slowly." And the King has been doing that all these years.

Events are pointing very definitely towards the King's opportune mu- ment. He is seventy-one years of Standing behind the towering bulk age, but King Victor thinks earnestly of the Dictator he has watched, and of the future of the House of Savoy thought, and walted. For some time rather than of himself, and he would he has probably thought the time is give a great deal to have the assur coming when the Dictator will need arce that his son would lend Italy. the help of the King more than the For years stories have circulated that Thrane needs him. On that day it Crown Prince Umberto and Mussolini will be for him to decide the future show no love for one another, and there was a time when it was bo- of Mussolini.

lieved that Umberto on this account

Disappointed

“Jackal”

Is there any sign of this happening soon? Neutral observers believe 50, What are their reasons?

March 15, 1941.

THE NEW GREEK MYTHOLOGY

By BILLIKEN

By

"Once upon a time, there was a bad giant

the Rev. W. Rowland

was going into voluntary exile. Vicar of Denton, Manchester

W

on Italy's Every bomb.dropped

I went to an old home of mine THEN I determined to visit and terves a dual purpose; every ship sunk and every plane destroyed.

London to see the extent and there found a street, which Not only are these things lessening

resources; they are slowly but of the damage wrought upon had been part of my life, lying positiun. Dorothy Thompson,

to wage war successfully she would have done so right at the beginning, instead of waiting until the fall of the American writer, has said that a friend said to me, "It will

the King of Italy is just waiting for break your heart!" -his-chance.

First, had laly been in a positions adding weight to King Vic-my native city by the air raids, in ruins.

-France,She then was still

but Mussolini, like Hitler, considered- the democracies finished, and, like In the next few months great the jackals, sneaked in for his share, changes may take pince in Italy, and very disappointed once the rot sets in that particular He must be a

still waiting,

end of the Axis will collapse with Jackal, for he

Again, the Italians are not Ger- a resounding wallop. What part will mans, as the Greeks and ourselves the King of Italy play?

are showing the world, and their Waiting His Chance

soldiers must be taken as representa- On that basis,

tives of the people.

OWB

And

his

without 39 were

they have endured, and the way they have endured, will be de- cisive in this conflict.

Jones

They have been attacked and they WON, as surely as ever the veterans of 1918 won.

There has been a battle of London, and the people of London have corne

qut on top.

But the victory' must be for sorne purpose. There is no purpose in the But I found again the same courage and the endurance and the faith which wins unless fruits of courage among the people. Wo victory are worth the achieving,

·

are

wen not merely by courage and by

ing to achieve, s

cruel and pro-

-}-have-seon_the_fruits stolen_once TE has not broken my heart,men were smiling as they gossip- but, singularly enough, it has ed. Tradespeople went round to before. Are the common people go-

as the houses as regularly as ever. ing to be led up the garden again new heart, such given me

If they are not it is time they be- So a personal visit

it WALK everywhere,

stirred themselves. Victories could have given.

throughout my visit. nothing but

What I had read made me

My last memory of the Lon- endurance, but also by taking neces- proud of my own people. What don which Hitler was going to say thought for the morrow. how much would the Italian nailon Many have always considered that I have seen in my first sight raze to the ground was the Tonight merely for victory, and suffer before demanding relief and King Victor Emmanuel

of widespread air-raid damage sound of a porter singing and not to know what that victory is go- he was actually singing Rigate waste of human life and of peace? Not a great deal.

family are pro-British,

great makes me certain that what hymn: "Each victory will help human enduring. And, most important, the fact is any doubt whatsoever

and numbers of Italians of all classes- established, both by our neutral experts, that Italy is in a bad up to the very day Mussolini de- way economically. Not so bad that glared war, at all events. It is by no means improbuble Urat if power few months; she will collapse in a but still so unsound as to require de- returns to the House of Savoy, Italy

will leave the side of Germany. finite and

assistance from material her Axis partner. Every ton of coal Fantastic us the matter may sound

from Germany. She must scon CD of any necessities Italy, ip extricating herself from the at the moment, the fact remains that of munition-manufacture, such as Axis, would need to throw herself on to Harbour will be recorded as brass and copper. But, greatest of the mercy of Britain, relying on the all her troubles, she is very soon Ho British for help in her desperate in I to be short of food.

ternal position. As a consequence of In only a few months of warfare this, the last phase of the war may Italy has more than half the week see Italy actually fighting against "meatless" days. Other staple foods Germany, as much her traditional are rationed to low as to make her enemy as Britain is her traditional of London."

very friend. stocks appear (as they are)

is already short

The complete list of prizes in the

Monster Raffle

in aid of the Bomber Fund will be published in the "South China Morning Post" on Tuesdays and in "The Hongkong Telegraph Saturdays.

on

Just as the River Plate action will be recorded as a victory, and just as the attack on Taran-

What I Learned In London

remember that I

12. it is now months ago that Mr Attlee declared In the House of Commons, "It is im- And as I rolled along back to portant that to-day we should con- to read, "Autumn 1940-Victory the North along the permanent- sider our peace aims."

a victory, in the annals of this you, some other to win! Fight war, so I want to see another manfully onward” triumph recorded, and I want it

way which is as permanent as The day passed by, and the night As I left the station and over it was, in spite of the came. The people of London, by tory, Coventry and Southampton, walked in the London streets I bombs, I thought of that por- their courage, huve won their vic-

ter's song.

Bristol and Birmingham, have won. looked for the scars.

It is the spirit of an uncon- their victory. But what is it for? It is true that there were quercd city! It is the spirit of What are we aiming ot in our vic- tragic marks of destruction. an unconquerable city!

You But it is also true that every feel that even if Hitler bombs thing was much as I had always from now to doomsday there'll

always be a London. known it.

Busy crowds, whistling news- boys, full restaurants.

Bre

tury"

It is true we want to crush Nazism

know we shall-but that is only a negative war alın. What are to be the achievements of victory?

after my visit to London, I

And London, remember, is city

inhabitants

I know what happened in London whose drawn from all over Britain. Of in 1066. There was a terrible plague wretched hovels around Saint Paul's. I talked to a Cockney, and he twenty people in one City office which festered and grew In the grinned. "We've had the worst I know, nineteen were born in

Thousands died. Then, next year, of it now! We're just clearing the provinces.

there was the Great Fire of London, which was a purging, for it burnt up the disease-infested havels.

up the mess!"

There are some qualities

My biggest shock was when which make any people-whe- "We will have A new London,"

I wont to see the vicar of a ther strong or weak-uncon-

shall be airy, healthy homes." church I know well. It was querable. Courage is one of ried the people of that day. "There shattered. The vicar's wife had them. Endurance is' another. been killed.

Sir Christopher Wren set to work But the greatest of all is with the plans. But he was too Inte Before the plans were finished, pri- vale enterprise-that unsocial force

Then I went to an offico where faith. the typist apologised for the plaster lying around. Proudly she said, "We've had a bomb" citizens of London in those few fit-had set to work and bulll up the I discovered that all the best days among them.

It is not just that those people of We want our plans for a better, people in London had to qualify London have stood up to it, not just healthier London, and a botler, for that description by that to use the common phrase that healthier Drilain. formula.

they have "taken it."

I felt the faith of my fellow which thinks only of self and of pro-

old had houses again.

NOW!

We want them

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