SAVAGE ATTACK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 7

SAVAGE ATTACK.

| WELLS ON MUSSOLINI. I "Posturing Figure Holding : Stage of Italy.*' WAR OR REVOLUTION. (Br Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) 'Received l.Tj'i p m . LONDON. February 6. j Mr. H. G. \\ ells, in a lensrthv I review of Italy, savagely attacks I Signor Mussolini in an exclusive | article in the "Sunday Express."' he j reviews his appearance on the scene as .the born actor in the role of a demagogue, guided by quick instinct J rather than intelligible reason. 'Tt is necessary only to study a few of his innumerable photographs now bespattering the world in order to realise the face—the perfect, popular actors face—which usually stares out of some pseudo-heroic costume with eyes devoid of thought and intelligence," and with an expression of vacuous challenge: 'Well what have you got again-; me, I deny it.' "It is the face of a man monstrmislv vain, afraid at first of a hiss, th..i S ji physically afraid of nothing and uT.t afraid of the assassin, but afraiddeadly afraid—of the truth, walkiiv by day. "The murders and outrages against I his opponents which lie like" a trail of I blood behind his record, are the natural j concomitants of leadership by a man overafraid of self-realisation to endure the face of an antagonist. j "Every single name of the men beaten, exiled and foully put to death is the name of a better man than the posturing figure holding the stage of Italy. "Mussolini has made nothing of Italv. He is the product thereof—the morbid product. "Italian* ask what should bo dune without Mussolini. The answer is: 'You would have got another.'" Mr. Wells predicts that many things may happen, either a war or a revolution in Italy, which is dangerous to all i humanity. At present Italy is merely Mussolini and may presently be his" distracted rclict.