BRITISH CLERICS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 9

BRITISH CLERICS

MUSSOLINI IN ANGRY MOOD

'STORM OF TURGID INK'

Cnlted Press Association—By Electric Teleeraph—Copyright. (Received March 24, 1 p.m.)! , ROME, March 23.'

Signor Mussolini was in angry mood when addressing 250,000 people from the balcony of ths Palazzo Venezia in ■connection with the eighteenth birthday of the Fascist movement, which he said coincided with one of the usual world storms against Italy. "It is a storm of turgid ink," he said, "with which are associated certain hypocritical and hysterical Anglican parsons who point out the motes in the eyes of others while their own eyes are blinded by beams that are centuries old. This campaign launched by professional pacifists constitutes complications and friction which reveal these people as the real enemies of that peace in which we sincerely wish to participate."

He concluded by warning the Black Shirts to remember their wrongs and be prepared.

A cable from Rome on March 21 stated that the Italian • Press was indignant over the Dean of Winchester comparing Signor Mussolini, in connection with the Abyssinian campaign, with the Assyrian Emperor Antiochus the Madman. It declared: "The.iniquitous and bloodthirsty Archbishop of Canterbury recently put a sacrilegious finger into Italy's wounds in a' way which no gentleman's agreement can obliterate, and now the Dean of Winchester has idiotically trespassed. As the Anglican Church is a State Church, we ask whether these attacks are not made to please the British Government."