MUSSOLINI’S METHODS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 400, 6 April 1937, Page 7

MUSSOLINI’S METHODS

“Only Playing at War.” London, April 5. “Italy is playing at soldiers,' and Mussolini is determined Ito keep her playing; that is why he has abandoned his attitude of friendliness towards the Hapsburg restoration, which he is now convinced would plunge Europe into war." So writes Robert Bernays, M.P., who has just returned from Italy, in The Spectator. "Support of the Hapsburgs would entail antagonism from Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia., threatening war. "Mussolini is certainly not underrating Britain, and when he said that the cornerstone of Italian policy was friendship with England, he meant Italian Dignity. “The Corona ion question is one of those rare cases, under a dictatorship, of the spontaneous uprising of indignation, on the part of the Italian people, who really felt it an intolerable insult that the Crown Frince should be expected -to be in the same room with the official independent representative of a country whereof .his father has declared himself Emperor. "Mussolini does not share three feelings. As an astute and experienced politician, he realised that the matter would probably never come before Cabinet, and he did not dare ignore popular resentment."