CENSURE OF ITALY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1937, Page 11

CENSURE OF ITALY

LABOUR MOTION

FEARS OF AGGRAVATING DUCE'S HOSTILITY

LONDON, March 24.

The ".Daily Mirror" says that in some quarters if is'feared that Signor Mussolini's present hostility to Britain'will be aggravated by tomorrow's House'of Commons debate on the Labour motion censuring Italy for the massacre' of Abyssinians at Addis Ababa.

There is a strong feeling among ,Conservatives that the debate" should be called off, at least until' a'fjter the Easter recess.

The Dean of Winch ester, the Very Rev. E. G. Selwyri, commenting on Sigh'pr Mussolini's speech in Rome said: "It is' 'interesting 'tp tod that the English pulpit has an influence as far away as Italy. It seems, from'the fapt that they are so disturbed,' as' though the Italians have,' a ' fea'd conscience over Abyssinia."

In a recent address the Dean of Winchester compared Signor. Mussolini, in connection with the Abyssinian campaign with the Assyrian Emperor Antip.chus the Madman. The Italian Press became indignant,' stating: "The'iiii.quit'pus" 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 trie Anglican Church' is a State Church, we ask whether these attacks are not made to please the British Government."

: A cable published, -yesterday stated that Signor litussplini was in angry mood when 'addressing 250.000 people from' the'balcony 'of the 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 arid' hysterical Anglican parsons who poinf. put the motes in the'eyes pf others while their own eyes are blinde.d by beams that are centuries old. tfhis campaign launched by professional pacifists cphstitutes 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.