FASCISM AND COMMUNIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 39, 16 February 1928, Page 6

FASCISM AND COMMUNIS.

I'have been trying to impress on Mr. S. W. Scott that the temporary depression in Italy of over a year ago was due to the soaring of the lira value, the prosperity of,the country being so great that the money soared to a height that was hurtful to industry. That has now been altered, and all Half marches with progress, peace and prosperity. When Mr. Scott talks about the Italian peopk as being afraid to speak their true mind—the bludgeon and the dagger are ever ready fcf those with the wrong brand of politico—he ignores the testimony of such men as Winrfw Churchill, Austen Chamberlain, George Bernard Shaw and Lord Riddell, while to come nearer home we have the testimony of such_Ke* Zealanders as Bishop Cleary, Sir George Mr. Henrys, Mr. Walter Darby and ottos who have first-hand knowledge of the position. These independent witnesses all speak of t* marvellous condition of peace and prosperity which Mussolini has wrought out of the Con*' munist-Sovietised Italy which existed Mussolini formed his Fascisti. Does Mr. Sew* realise that in 1920 more than 2000 munM s*~. ties in Italy flew the Soviet red flag emblaioneo with.the emblems of Leninist Communism®'® their town halls? Returned soldiers . medals torn from their tunics when they appeared in the streets; over 2000 peopj® Were killed by these Red Communists; Turin two returned soldiers were given a jjf* minute trial by a Red tribunal, presided J""? by both men and women, osdered to be cuted" by being flung, alive, into * J™*® furnace, and were actually so treated. Tj**' men were young, had parents dependent P P~~ them and had fouirht in the war. Ano™* man was disembowelled and his carcase with straw. Nitti, the Premier, in * of fear, had ordered that all army desew» bo released from prison, thus adding to forces against law and order. Other retujW» soldiers, still in uniform, were murderous attacks and left dying on cobbles withdut the police attempting to JBy? fere. The Government order was "not to,e*»~f the people." Then came Benito M ussolini ___ his organisation of returned soldiers. were a small band at first, but gradually?' ■ Mussolini was working for the great go oo humanity as Lenin worked for eviL town two hundred Communists were out by thirty-two Fascists. I would' ask Mr. Scott whether he prefers the tions which Communism brought about. conditions existing to-day. In RussiaCommunism there have been three people put to death. In Italy those wfio the enemies of law and order or trai the State are exiled. TAXO *' -