Wars Lighter Side.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 87, 12 April 1940, Page 6

Wars Lighter Side.

A famous admiral was visiting the dockyard one morning irhen a dispatch teas handed to him. His eye* were giving trouble, and tchen he had fumbled for his glasses found he had mislaid them. Be held the paper elosc to his eyes but fatted to read it and in despair he turned to a soldier irho teas standing nearby. "Head this for me, my good men." Jβ said, but the soldier shook his Head. your SS-Jfc Pm « *"""• «

But as Mussolini told Suraner Welles doubte that the Wettern Powers will be compelled before long to .it around back him blindly at overv turn to incur risk, and to inspire fea r wherever W may proV e to be a paving pr^

Making Use of the Tidea. Toward the end of last year he had become reetiye about the trend of public op.mon at home. Did not hi« coun-trTmen-pcrhaps a majority-ixZS* unbounded «at» faction with "the" 4int made beca.i«=e of the war and evidence a distinct wi.h not to be disturbed in he prospective enjoyment of the good things of this world!

The turn.n- point came toward the middle of January. On .Tanuarr 17 Secretary-General Mnti of the Fascist party msned instructions to the hierarchy and shortly afterward J] Duee huneelf addressed the eecretaries of the corporations in Africa —

"You must not fan asleep b, the delusion that Italy', presen/ attitude will last for ever."

Since then Italy's relations with France and Great Britain arc bein- used in order to arouse the feeling of the multitude and to make it wllli™ to face any omenrenev.

It is needles* to say that the Xazi Government strive* with all iu mi"ht to enbitter a quarrel between Oe-it Britain and Italy. Chancellor Hitler 16 reported in Rome to have explained that the holding back of the collicTln Rotterdam amounted to actual submission to the An ? lo-French naval control aiui to betray the iron pact.

The probabilities are tliat the Reich'preparations now in progress in the vicinity of the Luxembourg and Swiss frontiers are intended to act upon the Italian mind as an exhortation to clfalthe maritime Poi-ers.

Moreover it has become known that Germany hn« endeavoured to induce the Pascwt (Jovernment to negotiate a commercial treaty with Mnecnw. Great Britain and France will t-ake 'Teata care to .-pare the Fascist dictator and convince him there is ample room for his country in the Europe they will have to rebuild. But thev ennnot succeed unless II Duce cease* to think that he can thrive only in tbr midst of upheavals bora of German a<r?res*ion. .A.)