1941-08-06 — Page 12

THE SUN AGAIN!

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 6, 1941.

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The

ITALY

is no more:

as we knew it FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

ON THE ITALIAN FRONTIER

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Stubbs Rond

GARAGE

The

The independence for

1941

Italy

The vice of political interven- tion and divided control was in- herent in the very organisation of this as of all the Italian which Garibaldi and Maz- taken perhaps reluctantly, cer- physical impossibility 28 the armies, with their Blackshiṛt and independent Phone 27778-0❘ zini began their struggle ininly not until the imminence Gestapo and the Reichswehr formations

less than 100 years ago has of total internal collipse, fol- can make it. It remains only Fascist commanders at logger- lowing military disaster, made for Goebbels's propaganda beads with the professional vanished overnight.

it essential if the foundations of machine to persunde the Italians generals. The United Kingdom of Italy, the Axis. in Europe were to be that it is better so.. proclaimed barely 70 years ago saved., with Rome as its, capital, has become a German province. Mussolini's dream of empire has. faded before even the last blank map on the wall of the Roman Forum was filled in.

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wednesday, Aug. 6, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong

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POVERTY AND CRIME

In Hongkong, in fact, this is well nigh a truism. Crime here

Italy, purged of corruption and sloth, clean, young at vigor

To make disaster certain, Immediately before the Ger- Mussolini, after failing to pro- man occupation Italy was ready vide Graziani with the supplies FTER the loss of Cyre- for a separate peace. A few he needed, ordered him to make naica, and the Greek more reverses abroad, a few the premature advance to Sidi

and afterwards, to, fiasco, Italy was ripe for revolt. more weeks of pressure on Italy Barrani The battles in Libyn and Al- herself and the move would defend the untenable "Fascist

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armistice.

.

Italy to-day is ns helpless bariia, Taranto, and the failure have been made with or with bastions" of Bardia and Tob- the Duce. The Italian ruk. Mussolini, not Graziani, as France in Hitler's hands, ns.of the Italian air force against out humiliated as Bulgaria, more the British were caused not by Army was beaten and knew it; is the real loser of Cyrenaica. serve all rights and forbid republications, truly beaten than Poland or lack of gallantry in the Italian the navy was crippled and short Czechoslovakia. And the Duce forces, but by political inter- of fuel; the hopes placed in the

WHEN Italy declared war who boasted of her coming ference, incompetent leadership air force had proved vain.

the young Italian Navy triumphs six months ago is the and bad equipment.

Some good judges believe IF cleanliness be next to god-direct and supreme cause of hers

Wounded soldiers returning that if Britain had made her (described by Mussolini as "the liness, it can be equally claimed downfall.

home spread these black tidings bombing of Italian town really most modern in the world") that poverty makes for crime.

In 1922 when the Blackshirts more swiftly than any radio, heavy for a short time and had was ready and eager for daring marched on Rome (followed by In their hospital cots they swore then made a peace offer to enterprise. It might have made their Leader in a sleeping-car) vengeance on the Duce and his Rome, the Fascist Grand Council a dangerous attack on Malta Fascism was proclaimed as a henchmen for their vain suffer itself would have insisted on an and Alexandria, reducing the is more opportunistic than pre-movement by which a new ings.

disparity between the British But meditated, from the vulgar iar-

Only one man could prevent The chance for that has gone and Italian squadrons.

of the Mussolini kept the fleet at home ceny of a shop-soiled overcoat to

ous, was being born. Though revolt from spreading; and he now, but the collapse blotted by many cruelties, half- could do it only if his system of Italian war machine remains a and ordered it to avoid decisive action for his own political ren- hidden murders and dark deeds, police espionage and intimida- fact.

sons-because he wanted to the new system had its creative tion received the backing of

Perhaps the bitterest pill for keep it as a bargaining counter visible and unshaken military

Mussolini and his admirers to against Hitler after the war. A respectable record of social power.

swallow is the fact, which they and economic achievement To prevent the first resound-

Condemned to inactivity of must now recognise among could be set against its crimes. ing collapse of totalitarianism In the easy phrase of his in Europe the Nazis had first to themselves, that the Fascist runaway actions, the Italian admirers Mussolini "did a lot save.Mussolini from the conse- system and policy, which set sailors lost their spirit. of wages which governs the for Italy." He might have done quences of his folly. To do this out to make the Italians a Taranto affair set the seal on native clerks and fokis, especi- more if the craze for conquest they had to occupy Italy with nation of conquerors, are the Italian naval impotence. But ally those employed by Chinese had not got"into"his"blood: troops and take over the true ruot cause of their military-it.was Mussolini, not Cavagnari,

reins of government there failure. firms, it can be found in the To-day the rebirth of Italy

under Mussolini is an exploded always with the appearance of

The Italian air force, created myth, even at home. With the friendly collaboration. The pro- crumbling of Italy's armies cess took time, partly because its

in by the Fascist Party as a symbol overseas under the lows of first stages had to be accom-

Libya suffered the most of Young Italy's new-found Britain, the deluded Italian plished secretly, partly because

pitch of in of people have seen. through the communications between Ger- humiliating defeat in modern strength, reached

fundamental hypocrisy of Fas, many and Italy were restricted. history, losing prisoners

the more daring type of fraud, And in many cases both types find their cause in want or in temptation which thousands would find hard to resist.

If a pointer were needed for the dangerously low standard

number of cases where these types of workers indulge in fraudulent conversion of firms' monies. Often, it is true these crimes arc the product nothing but a criminal mind; just as often it is found that the miscreants have been, either driven to it through sheer poverty or because temptation has been almost deliberately thrust in their way. Honesty

is a virtue, but it is not inherent

Bide.

cism.

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GRAZIANI'S

Brmy

The

who disgraced the Italian nava! flag.

greater numbers than the whole efficiency some years ago, which British attacking force, not be earned it the respect of foreign cause the Italian troops lacked Powers, But it is rowhere truer To Italian amour-propre courage but because of poor than in the air that pride comes IN the general disaffection

concessions were made. equipment, bad staff work, in- before a fall; and the systema- which now existe against Hitler was always careful to sufficiant reconnaissance, slow tic boastfulness of the Fascist the Duce and hia circle,, party spare the feelings of his beaten and stupid planning, but above mentality secrets are no longer kept. Cor- partner. But the thing is done all political interference from Italian airmen. ruption in high places, divided to-day, and a rising against the Rome and most of ull from the councils, ruthless personal Fascist regime is as nearly

Power interfering disastrously.

at every point, political "stunts"

Duce in person.

distorting and defeating the GRIN AND BEAR IT plans of military leaders are

and is thoroughly conditioned. When a man, for example, who earns a few dollars a month, and perhaps is allowed in addi-suddenly laid bare. tion board and lodgings, is cx-.. pected to handle thousands of dollars in complete freedom, there is small wonder if he falls to the inevitable temptation. It is the employer who must shoulder most of the blame if his confidence under these con- ditions is misplaced.

What claimed to be a new and infallible mode of government stands revealed as a device.to keep an unscrupulous, ignorant and cynical oligarchy in control.

Italians who yesterday ac cepted Fascisin with respect even though they felt no affec tion for it to-day curge it as a blight upon their country. But most of all they curse the man- A more serious social pro- who embodies the Fascist blem, however, is that of the system and has sold his own underpaid worker, placed in a people to Germany in order to position of trust, who through keep, that system and himself economic circumstances

is alive. forced to stoop "to crime; the

man who, on a wage of 20 to 40 The German occupation of dollars a month must keep a Italy, now as effective is that wifo and family and probably of France, though as polite and near relatives. His wages are cautious, is no more offshoot of wholly inadequate to cover Nazi conquest. It was under- Ilving costs aid he faces the prospect of intolerable debt or probably unemployment, if he seeks an increase in pay,

on earth gets $20 a month?" There has, perhaps, "been too much tendency to place tho The attitude of the Chinese blame for the social ills of the employers stands in line for a Colony exclusively upon the good donl of necessary correc-shoulders of the white man. The tion. Only recently, when some Chinese have only too willingly

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proved fatal

to

CONFIDENT of their

superiority, they neg lected the hard training and vigilance

the for progress of rivals which are essential if a lead in the air is to be kept. Italian aircraft con- structors, encouraged to com pete for spectacular but short- lived international records," neglected basic research and broad-based development. The Italian air force entered the war with obsolescent machines and on a down-grade of production which Italian industry failed to reverse. The Duce's bold words were no substitute for, up-to- date engines and armamenta and highly-trained Individual. air fighters...

Mussolini,

the brave but ill-served Italian pilota, lost Italy ther place in the air.

Whorever one turns the story is the same the story of gal lant fighting forces lamed and corrupted by political jobbery; above all, of disaster coming through the rash and uncon- trolled judgment of one man. With the disappearance of inde pendent Italy, Europe, as · B‚· contre of civilisation, is the poorer

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But Italy bequeaths it one precious parting gift: an awful lesson in the vanity of conquest and the danger of leaving un- bridled power in a Dictator's hands: