AMERICA AND ITALY
MUSSOLINI CHARGES SENATOR'S OUTBURST
-..' '■ , 'A •■-•■.'■■ '■ . ' ' (■'-.' (Received sth February, 1 p.m.) ' WASHINGTON, 4th February. An open hearing of the* charges against Major-General jSmedley Butler was demanded by Senator Heflin- (Democrat), Alabama, in, the Senate on Wednesday, "in. the name of justice and' fair play." The Senator read a, statement published in an anti-Fascist paper in New York declaring that General Butler's charge against Mussolini that he ran down a child and did not] stop was true. "Let the American people sit on the trialj let us know if] this mad monarch is to have the world kowtdwing to him," Senator Heflin said, adding that an American Consul in Italy had been- beaten during* a Fascist' parade, but.no apology was made by. Italy. ", When they struck him, they struck the Government," he 'said. "They spat on .the flag, but they did not apologise."' , .-i
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1931, Page 12
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