ITALY CALLS MEN TO ARMS
London. March 23. While Mr. Eden was conferring with French and Italian representatives at Paris Signor Mussolini framatically ordered the remainder of • the 1911 class to arms "as' a precautionary measure". A portion of this class was previously called up during the Abyssinian trouble." The latest decree means 60,000 additonal troops which, with the retention in servipe of the 1913 and 1914 classes and roughly 400, 000 Fascist militia armed with rifles and machine guns means Italy will have over a Billion soldiers ready for emergency. Our desire for peace and collaboration in Europe is based on some millions of bayonets, said Signor Mussolini, addressing Blackshirts from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia on the sixteenth anniversary of the foundation1 of Fascism. He added: To-day, when the political sky is clouded, Italy offers the world a spectacle of magnificent calm because she is strong in spirit and in arms. We shall not be unprepared for any situation that may arise. We will overpome all obstacles placed, to prevent us fulfilling our destiny.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 71, 25 March 1935, Page 5
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