INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM

Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 4

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM

THE MATTEOTTI MURDER MEMORIAL UNVEILED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. BRUSSELS, September 11. (Received September 12, at 12.10 p.m.) At the unveiling of a memorial to Matteotti, Mr Arthur Henderson declared that it was tho symbol of the homage of international Socialism to the ideals of liberty and democracy. Matteotti realised that Fascism was denial of the principles of political liberty and democratic right, banishing, torturing, destroying, and slaying the bodies of men, but it was imaole to hill free spirit and reason or annul tho law. Fascism and Bolshevism together had spread ruin, desolation, and death. Matteotti had used the weapons of reason and goodwill, which alone would ultimately prevail against tyranny.

[The disappearance of Signor Mafteotti in December, 1924, _ profoundly shook tho balance of Italian politics and deeply moved tho conscience of the nation. Signor Matteotti was the man on whom had fallen tho burden of upholding the banner of moderate Socialism. Jt was known that during the diseussiop on (he provisional Estimates he proposed to attack tho conduct of various minor members of the Government upon the score of personal corruption, to which, no doubt, the persons concerned had an adequate defence. In anv event the charges had no relation to Signor Mussolini, nor to the honesty of tho Easeisli generally. Three days before the debate was expected to take place he was seized in a street near bis house in Romo by five men, hustled into a closed car, and rapidly driven off. From that moment ho lias not been seen alive. Five arrests were made in connection with the crime. One was that of Farinelli, who was formerly managing-secretary of the Fascist! Party.]