MORE CONSCRIPTS CALLED UP

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21402, 19 February 1935, Page 11

MORE CONSCRIPTS CALLED UP

♦ ' ENTHUSIASM IN ROME i ' MANY VOLUNTEERS FOR AFRICAN SERVICE ERITREA GARRISON NOW <<v REINFORCED ftTNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-BY ELECTRIC 1 ' l TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT.) (Received February 19, 12.20 a.m.) ROME, February 18. There were scenes of tremendous enthusiasm throughout the day in f Home, as the 1911 class was called u p Parents and friends accompanied each batch of arrivals at the railway station. Signor Mussolini informed the Fascist Grand Council that 70,000 Blackshirts had volunteered for service in Africa. He also revealed that the Blackshirt battalion which sailed from Naples on February 10 i W ould reinforce the garrison in [ Eritrea.

A GENERAL RETIRED PENALTY OF COMPLAINT UNEQUIPPED YOUTHS CROWD INTO MESSINA MESSINA, February 18. When thousands of young volunteers arrived in response to the call to the colours, General Vacari, officer in command here, realised that the rations and clothing were insufficient and telegraphed to the War Office pointing out the unwisdom of crowding the seaport with troops be'i fore adequately preparing for them. Signor Mussolini, as War Minister, replied by placing General Vacari on the retired list. Nevertheless, the difficulty has not been solved, the youngsters flocking in without uniforms and unequipped except for smail bundles brought from home. They will be drafted to Syracuse and Palermo before sailing. General . Boscardi replaces General Vacari. ; PRAISE OF WAR BY MUSSOLINI , RIDICULED "HARMFUL POSTULATE OF PEACE" NEW YORK, January 12. "Pacifism is the harmful doctrine 'of cowards, and permanent peace is neither possible nor desirable," declares Signor Mussolini, in an exposition of Fascism written for "International Conciliation," the monthly organ of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Glorifying war as lending a noble impetus to human energy, Signor Mussolini ridicules the League of Nations and all international peace societies as illusory,' and predicts that they will be "scattered to the ydnds" in the event of a truly seric . international crisis.

Signor Mussolini's contribution is one of a series appearing in "International Condition," prepared by leading exponer . of contemporary political thought. Last month M. .Josef Stalin, writing in this series, explained Bolshevism. He predicted that "bourgeois pacifism" was coming to an end, and that capitalist countries were preparing for an imperialist war.

Democracy Seen as Decadent . Coupled with his attack on pacifism, Signor Mussolini, in his exposition of Fascism, ridicules liberalism snd democracy as doctrines that have had their day and are destined .to die. '' } "Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of Jnoment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual Peace," writes Signor Mussolini It thus repudiates the doctrine of pacifism—born of a renunciation of line struggle and an act of cowardice "fte face of sacrifice. 'War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy, and Puts the stamp of nobility upon the Peoples who have the courage to tteet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men jnto the position where they have Jo make the great decision—the alternative of life or death. 'Thus a doctrine which is founded ?Pon this harmful postulate of peace is hostile to Fascism; and thus hostile io the spirit of Fascism, though accepted for what use they can be in Dealing with particular political situations, are all the international «agues and societies which, as history win show, can be scattered to ;ne winds when once strong feeling SJs aroused by any motive —sentimental, ideal, or practical. This spirit is carried by FasAsm evefn into the life of the indiviouaLV.

"Acceptation of Risks" fascism, Signor Mussolini adds, to promote "education to com**t, the acceptation of the risks Mich combat implies," conceiving F life as "duty and struggle and inquest." Explaining the Fascist conception M i( the State, Signor Mussolini says: Fascism conceives of the State K?v an aDS °l ute » in comparison with ™nich all individuals or groups are jwatives, only to be conceived of in Weir relation to the State. gj/The conception of the liberal » l «e is not that of a directing force, Riding the play and development, ?°tn material and spiritual, of a collF.lve body, but merely a force ijpited to the function of recording isults. On the other hand, the fascist State is itself conscious, and Ig ß itself a will and a personality, it may be called the 'ethic'