NEARING THE END

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 80, 28 December 1935, Page 10

NEARING THE END

Dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini JOURNALIST’S OPINION Dominion Special Service. Auckland, December 7. After discussions with well-informed people on the Continent and in England, Mr. Frederick Howard, of .Melbourne. author and journalist, is convinced that Mussolini's dictatorship iu Italy will end within a year, and that Hitler’s fall will occur shortly afterward. Mr. Howard, accompanied by Mrs. Howard, passed through Auckland on tbe Mariposa on his return to Australia after a nine months’ tour abroad.

•’Mussolini will not lust a year,” said Mr. Howard. Unrest in Italy, he continued. was growing, and Mussolini was finding many financial difficulties in his path. “Hitler, too. is meeting with, many problems in Germany, and be will last only a little longer than Mussolini.” said Mr. Howard. “The Nazis have diminished greatly in numbers, and Hitler is now left, with a comparatively small group of followers, with the assistance of whom he has been putting his policy into effect. The, people, however, are still afraid of him.”