ATTACK ON LEAGUE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 201, 26 July 1937, Page 7

ATTACK ON LEAGUE

ARTICLE BY MUSSOLINI. PACIFIC NATURE DENIED. WILL EUROPE PERISH ? (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 26, 11.10 a.m. ROME, July 25. Signor Mussolini, in an article in the newspaper Popolo d’ltalia, entitled “Facts and Fiction,” asks: “Will Europe perish, wrapped in a cloud of fiction?” Ho recalls various episodes in contemporary European history which, he says, belong to the realm of fiction, such as the reparations unsuccessfully imposed on Germany, and the elaborate system of inter-allied debts which nobody belies can ever be settled but which everybody continues mentioning as a reality. Signor Mussolini continues: “The organisation which creates and keeps up this political fiction is the League of Nations, the alleged universality and pacific nature of which is also completely fictitious.” Signor Mussolini says it is absurd to refuse to grant the Spanish rebel General Franco ' belligerent rights, for “behind him the whole of Spain of to-day and to-morrow is fighting for its life and prosperity. General Franco’s position should be dealt with in a spirit of realism. This is the condition for the life of the whole of Europe.”