MODERN ITALY
TO ', HI IDITOK OF TBI PJUS." Sir, —Mr Umberto Colonna is wise in his generation. He deems discretion the better part of valour. He ignores the question I asked (and which I repeat) for reasons that will be obvious to anyone who has followed this discussion. The question is—"Who is the more credible witness in any question affecting the condition of Italy to-day—Mr Umberto Colonna, 20 years absent from Italy, or Signor Flocchini. who lias lived in Ilnly all the time, has seen the changes effected under Mussolini, and finds Ihcm good?" Mr Colonna's reply lo ilia) is: "'Reasonable's' descent lo personal attack upon mo excuses me from answering him.'' Even if Mr Colonna appreciates the wisdom of the old couplet. "He who tights and runs away May live to fight another day," [ will not let him run away from an attack. The question restated will not appear to your readers as a "personal attack." Will Mr Umberto Colonna run away again? If he dons he had better find a more reasonable excuse for his flight.—Yours, etc., REASONABLE. February 12, 1934. [Subject to the right of reply of Umberto Colonna. this correspondence is now closed. 1
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21088, 13 February 1934, Page 15
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