TO END WAR DEBTS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1932, Page 6

TO END WAR DEBTS

MUSSOLINI'S PLEA TO AMERICA. SHIP OF SORROWS SEEKS PORT. JJnited Press Association—By Electric leie&rapli —Gopyrighi.) ROME, October 23.

Bpfire 133,000 people ssseaiblatl i*. the Piazzo Gastello! at Turn, Signcu Mueicolini fervently appealed t , America to encl war debts. He said that since ha earner advocacy of a cl-tin Mate, the Lausanne Conference had bepn held and energetically led by Mr MacDonald. M hen the vessel oi reparations and war debts had entereu port, was America going to refuse refuge for this vessel, filled with oorrows and the b'.ocd of so many people f Italy, he said, intended to remain n the League.i She could n °t abandon •it now that it was very sick. Gnn'.iany'.s. demand for equality was fmlj justified and the sooner this was recognised the better, but while the Disarmament Conference existed the Germans must rot be allowed to re-arm. Should the Conference fa 1 to reach a decision Germany could mot remain u: tl\,o. League unless this mortification was removed. If the collaboration < the four western. Powers was established Europe con'd be politics.ly tranquil and. perhaps the economic ciLi-f would bo endu'd. ...... It had been.suggested .that Ital v c concrete and practical proposals for disarmament were, inspired By M af h avellian calculation. Nothing coutcl be falser. .Italy was 'following pea c e, which coin'd mot be dissociat. d fro.ijustice. , ‘•From this frontier town, wfticli never feared war (cries of ‘never’) j declare, zo that all the world can thj-t Italy i.s following a policy <“ peace which will restore •. Europe’s equilibrium,” •said 'Signor Mrsso’mi. “All the same, beyond our frontiers there ai> madmen who won't forgive Fascist 'ltaly for surviving, It is ? sramdal to these scum and dreg? th“t there should be a Fascist Italy mocking their principles, which time has •shown to be useless. But ill the i-sne between Fa-Jmi and its enemies the victory is with us. ’. «

Referring to economic matters iPigpqr Mnssoji-i deplan’d that Italy ■was opposed to .subsidies and inflation, and added that in countries, including Britain, where currency I'd depreciated, the condition of the people W£lS im : m proved. ,