ANGLICAN CLERGY DENOUNCED

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22050, 25 March 1937, Page 15

ANGLICAN CLERGY DENOUNCED

MUSSOLINI'S ANGRY

OUTBURST

"CAMPAIGN BY PROFESSIONAL

PACIFISTS"

(tntITXD PRESS ABSOCIATIOH—COFTEIOHT.) (Received March 24, 1.45 p.m.) ' ROME, March 23. Signor Mussolini, in an angry mood, addressed 250,000 people from a balcony in Venice, on the eighteenth birthday of the fascist movement, which he said coincided with one of the usual world storms against Italy. It was a storm of turgid ink, he said. "With it are associated certain hypocritical, hysterical Anglican parsons, who point out the motes in the eyes of others, while their own eyes are blinded by beams, centuries old.

"This campaign," he added, "launched by professional pacifists, brings complications and friction which reveals these people as the real enemies of that peace in which we sincerely wish to participate." Signor Mussolini concluded by warning the Black Shirts to remember their wrongs and be prepared.

OUTBURST DEPRECATED IN BRITAIN

ATTEMPT TO COVER LOSS OF PRESTIGE

LONDON, March 23

Recent attempts to exacerbate Anglo-Italian relations have become more prevalent. II Duce's outburst was greatly deprecated in British official quarters, where, nevertheless, uneasiness exists. The political correspondent of the Australian Associated Press gathers that Whitehall, while disagreeing with the reports that tension is more strained than at any time since the trouble in the Mediterranean in 1935, nevertheless believes the position requires yery careful handling. Signor Mussolini's speech to-day is interpreted as due to anger at discovering the extent of the Italians' defeat in Spain. It is given prominence in conjunction with his displeasure with the troops arid an attempt to cover up a rebuff to Italian prestige.