FASCISM WILL COLLAPSE

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1926, Page 9

FASCISM WILL COLLAPSE

MUSSOLINI’S GREAT BLUFF BRITISH WRITER’S VIEWS RIDICULOUS ONE MAN SHOW By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 23. Declaring that Fascism will collapse at the latest with the disappearance of its founder, Mr. Renwick, the special commissioner of the Daily Chronicle in Rome, proceeds to dispel the general conception of Signor Mussolini. “The wonderful picture conjured up of Mussolini dashing from one Ministry to another, making instant decisions on matters of vital national concern, giving orders for wonderful new measures, seeing Ambassadors, reviewing Fascists, riding early in the morning and rushing off somewhere at night, is nothing but picturesque propaganda. “Mussolini in reality is rather lazy; he has spirits of activity, but there is little evidence that they are really effective. The noise about six portfolios is a ridiculous business. The truth is that he has only at his call a gang of sixth-raters, trained to tyranny and nothing else; he cannot trust them. He has a command of picturesque phrases, but the thing, will fall. “Italy is looking for deeds, and has been disappointed. When the ridiculous one-man show crashes, as it must when the biggest political fraud ever perpetrated on a nation is ended, and when the bluff is called, there will certainly be serious trouble. “Living is still most expensive; white bread recently disappeared. Graft goes on; taxation is heavy; there are half a million unemployed; petty tyranny is constant: Yet Fascism must not be criticised. In such a state is the country that when Fascism falls it will be difficult to find a man willing to own that he was ever a Black Shirts. “Meanwhile telegrams from Paris suggest the active dangers of the international policy of Fascism, particularly in connection vyth the military preparations on the Franco-Italian frontier.”