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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1926, Page 2

Extiikssino the view that Fascism is going to dominate European history for months, Mr Frank 11. Simonds recently discussed in the American Review of Reviews, the consequences of Mussolini’s success in arousing a national spirit in Italy that has no counterpart, since the Great AVnr, in any other part of Europe. “France, Britain, Germans - , are done with the thoughts of war; they are tired, weary and almost exasperated by the mere sight of the trappings of martial splendour,” he says. “But in Italy it is utterly different. There is a sense of an excited, and exacerbated nationalism. Italy is seeking something, demanding something, intent upon obtaining something which she has not. Her will is expressed with vehemence and even violence abroad. The eyes of her people are turning in all directions, searching for some way for the nation to expand. Colonies, new territories, an imperial future—this dream fills the press and finds expression on every occasion. There is a fever in the air and in the atmosphere. To-day Italy is a volcano of inflamed nationalism, of aroused patriotism. Can Mussolini, greatmail as lie is, control and canalise this enormous and explosive patriotic force which he has aroused? Can he lead it into safer channels and direct it to the development of national resources? And this young, new, passionate patriotic and self-confident Italy is demanding for itself a place in the sun and a field for expansion commensurate with its own notion of its needs. Bnt—where is there such, a field, save \aeross the boundaries of other nations, and how attainable save !>v war?”