ARMED MIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 255, 28 October 1930, Page 7

ARMED MIGHT.

MUSSOLINI'S BOAST. " Cannons More Beautiful Than Fine Words." NOT ATTACK. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10.a.m.) ROME, October 27.

Declaring that' the world was divided into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, Signor Mussolini declared that side by side with the moral war being waged against Fascism, the war of fire and steel was hastening forward along the frontiers. How could he, in the face of the batteries placed in position in forts already built and the military dispositions planned, f&jl to arouse the people of Italy whom those he now unmasked tried to represent as the only danger to European peace? Italy would arm herself because other nations were arming. She would disarm when ethers, disarmed. "Cannons are more beautiful than fine words, which are only divine when they can settle international disputes," lie said. "We are arming to defend ourselves not to attack anybody. It is absurd to say that . peace treaties cannot be revised. The- violators of the League of Nations Covenant are those who arc trying perpetually to maintain two classes of States, one armed to the teeth and the other disarmed. "In view of Italy's crowded' population it is only towards Eastern Europe that she can expand peacefully, which explains our friendships with Hungary and Bulgaria. "Fifty battalions of Fascist militia, •supported by 50,000 cadets will give tomorrow a display of armed might hitherto never seen. None can and none shall stop us," declared II Duce.