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By BILLIKEN

WHAT ITALY NEEDS

IS

A LEADER

Rome Radio too trivial for સ broadcast was definitely worried, for the bulletin. Reports of shops being Radio should first possess nation knew nothing of the closed for offences against price as background some know-altimatum. Glaring discrepan regulations, of sentences against ledge of Italian home poll- cies crept into the news bul- hourlors. They are obviously tics. Without this the pic- letins and the Gaydas who used as a deterrent against other ture will be distorted.

LISTENERS-IN to Rome war with Greece.

delivered the talks were hard offenders. On December 15 the put to appear plausible if not Party

THE BOMBER FUND

A bishop in India recently

Strange as it may appear, it coherent. aroused some resentment, and

was through Hitler that Musso- also somé acquiescence, by a ser- lini's weakness was shown up. mon which mildly castigated

It was after the march into the Sudetenland. Besides approv- white people in India for lavishing the Fuehrer's action, the expenditure on entertainment and living during the winter months while Britain was under- going her worst ordeal. Yester-

By

CATHOLICS VILIFIED BY NAZIS

Secretary, Adelche Serena, called all the regional secretaries of the central and northern provinces, telling them to intensify their work. More money was to be spent on funds and every effort was to be made to extir- pate defeatists and dissentients. Then Taranto, "One warship Party sections are to remain Reich. The notable exception heavily damaged." The listener open in future day and night

When to render assistance."

well-drilled Italian Press appeal- ed for closer union with the

F. A. Shepley assistance

was the "Corriere del Padino,”- which carried a violent article sensed something more. day the news was published of against the suggestion. Balbo finally the report was fully

signed it and at the same time known. Rome became furious, signed his death warrant,

1,000 deaths and many more casualties in the Merseyside and Clyde arens as a result of two nights' bombing.

A month ago one million odd dollars were' poured into the Rooty Hill Derby sweepstake. To date the number of tickets sold in the Bomber Fund raille, while good, is not worthy of Hongkong when one remembera! the cause at stake, and in view of the splendid lead given by so many firms in offering nearly $50,000 worth of prizes.

Able as Hongkong is to-day to pursue its sporting activities, evening amusements and unra- tioned meals with comparatively` negligible inconvenience, it is conceivable that the Colony fails to appreciate the extent of the sacrifices needed now, and which are to come. It should certain- ly be possible, without making ourselves miserable in anticipa- tion, or skeletons before ration- ing, to conform more to the pre- sent Homeside standard of living, and thus enable ourselves to make greater contributions towards the Empire's cause,

It is obvious now that the war will be long and arduous, calling for careful planning by the Ad- | ministration and loyal co-opern. tion by all individuals. Tighten- ing our belts in Hongkong while our larders are full is not only a wise precaution, bút an act of grace which recognises that the Battle of Britain is not merely a task for those in the front lines at Home, but has its need of Hongkong's loyal and gener ous participation.

But since we cannot share the front line trenches, let us give until it hurts. Which brings us once again to the Bomber Fund,

Something akin to dismay

FROM the foregoing it will be seen that the Duce does not feel too sure of his position, and

A sensational book has just been published in London. Its - German titlo is "Der Todfeind Des Christentums," or Tho Per- secution of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich.

For some time the relation of the Pope to the present war has been made the subject of shrowd and effective Axis propaganda. Many Catholics in Britain have been gravely perturbed and a prominent London newspaper urged that the position of the Vatican should be clarified.

When His Holiness recently blessed a large congregation at St Peter's and urged them to be faithful servants of their Father- land, the newspaper reports made it appear that the congre- gation consisted entirely of Italian Officers which was, of course, not trac.

Subsequently a report was is- sued from Berlin that the leaders of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich had sent a message to Hitler thanking him for his tolerance towards them and, by' keeping the enemy at the gates, permitting them to get on with their Christian Lasks.

Concordat?

Further reports indicated that Hitler would place the whole of Europe with its new order under the spiritual domain of the Pope. In other words à concordat scem- ed to be in the process of accom- plishment between the Vatican and the Nazis..

But now, like a bombshell, comes "Der Todfeind Des Chris- tentums" with its documented

charges against the Nazis, and its sensational proofs that Hitler regards the Catholic Church as a greater enemy than the Jews. In fact some of the anti- Catholic cartoons,in this book, reproduced from German papers, have all the virulent coarseness with which the Jew was lam- pooned and libelled. One of the present Pope is so offensive that I cannot describe it in detail. It is sufficient to Sny that Humanity is portrayed as a woman of an obvious class with his Holiness as her admirer.

is This Laken from

Das Schwartze Korps of July 22, 1937.

Pope's Goodness

-1-am-not-a-Catholic-but-on-the-

seized the people, particularly MUSSOLINI himself had to realises that he may have to the northern Italians, when the sponk, but it is significant quit hurriedly at any moment. full significance of the Duce's that he had_to_speak_to_the_Judging by the frantic efforts zig-zag policy was realised, Italians, not to explain away the of the Rome Itadio to stem the occasion of Mr Chamberlain's Tongues wagged. So much so Taranto affair, but to pave the deterioration of Italian morale,

visit to Rome I had the privilege that in October, 1938, the way to the admissions of one might anticipate a climax

of a long private audience with Ovra received hasty instructions reverses in Greece and to call to in case the Greeks smush

the Secretary of Stale at the to take a holiday. The people order the "pacifists, slackers through, or the overranning of

Vatican, the then Cardinal the British. were ripe for revolution.

and defeatists," whose number Tripolitania by

Pacelli. It is not for me to re- Certainly, when the moment

veal what was said between us What was wanting was, and apparently was growing.

arrives there will be no hospit-on that occasion, but seldom It was the first clear sign that able Bellerophone to save Musso- something was coming unstuck, lini from the wrath of his delud-

have I been so impressed with This preface will help to the first tangible evidence of the ed followers. The most likely To him the people of the world the essential goodness of a man. throw light on some of the more weakness of the Italo-Fascist solution will be the Blackshirts obscure manoeuvrings of the relations.

were one family, and their suf- pride: the dagger, Duce and Fascism. though

ferings were his sorrow.

still is, a leader.

listeners-in must not expect to Right on top of the Albanian detect immediate and startling campaign came stringent ration- revelations as to trends and ing decrees. changes of policy.

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Could Build Ideal

Shelter But-

As the series of Italian defeats in Albania lengthened important changes were made in the cum- ITALY has been very much in mands of the fighting forces; but the limelight of late. She has Romo Radio only just mentioned been involved in three major the fact. At this point the events: Taranto, the Greek nation begun to show signs of campaign, the Egyptian debacle. restiveness, the proof being that The point to note about them the propagandist was obliged to is their rapid cumulative effect, adopt a new technique and They represent, be it remem- occupy himself with facts; gen- Britain's Royal Gold Medal for bered, the first undeniable, eralities would no longer do. factual, unhideable reverses Daily the radio announced experienced by the regime since surprise visits paid by Fascist He is the man who designed

MR ERANK LLOYD WRIGHT, America's greatest architect, has been awarded

Architecture.

The quake of 1023 destroyed provided the

nearly everything In Tokyo. But next not even a wall of Lloyd Wright's shattering blow. Rome Radio hotel was cracked,

Because of that interview I have refused to believe that he has changed in his attitude to- wards the Axis and especially Germany. The position of the Vatican and Fascism is com- plicated by a clause in the fam- Dus Concordat whereas tho Vatican agreed to take no sides in a war involving Italy. That is an understandable concession based on the reality of the Vati- can being physically a section of the Italian State.

But as I read the revelations in this German book of the par- secution of priests, the banning

the poisoning of the child mind, the denunciation of self control na a crime against naturo and the State, and the delineation of the Pope as a Communist and a criminal-then I know that there can be no peace of the spirit between the Vatican and the Wilhelmstrasse.

So for Dr Goebbels has made no reply to the British publica. tion of "Der Todfeind Dea Chris- tentums."

its advent to power in 1922. district chiefs to the various the first quake-proof building-of Catholic Youth movements,

Fascism feeds upon success; headquarters throughout the the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. defeat spells death. Till now country, during which section Completed in 1919, it was derid- were received. Such ed by many critics. But four Mussolini has been a psycho. leaders logist of a high order, and has sudden visits have always por years later they had to cat their known perfectly how to prepare tended something grave in the words. his public. Thus, when Italy State. entered the war, the masses Wuvell thought it was a walkover.

The Italians were filled with taked all on Graziani, and lost.

bombastic and

Views on London vulgar "new order" talks, long and in- The

Two years ago-before war be- eredibly detailed accounts of epithets hurled at England have Fasciat airmen's successes in rebounded most impressively, gan--he visited London and this la Africa, out of all proportion to The rapid Italian withdrawal what he thought of itin

had to be admitted in the plece, but as

"It interests me their military value.

modern city it is not- communiques, but only in it for human habitation. The news bulletins were in- directly. "The British have "Your Government E making tended to impress on Italians only recaptured a paltry few plans for evacuating the city. Why the certitude of victory. Re- square miles of desert and not evacuate it for good? There is verses were not even contem- worsened the strategic position." plenty of room on this green earth

for everybody." plated; only the sort of peaco The Intest Hino taken up is He sold ho could build for the to be imposed afterwards. The that "the full weight of the capital A perfectly bomb-proof propagandist threw prudence to British Empire, is being used shelter. the winds and let himself go. ngainst Italy. We are proud of statesmen cannot solve the pro- "But why should 17" ho added. Suddenly, things started hap- the honour."

Other items have blem at its source, civilisation is pening. Something had slipped: crept into Radio Roma news, hardly worth saving."

KIS

museum

The documented accuracy of the book probably presents a problem which may prove too difficult even for the adroit brain of Germany's Propaganda Mini- ster.

Beverley Baxter, M.P.