HOCKEY AT WANGANUI

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 45, 22 August 1939, Page 11

HOCKEY AT WANGANUI

(By Telegraph —Press Association.! WANGANUI, This Day. In the secondary schools' hockey tournament, Wellington College beat Wanganui College by '2 goals to nil.

of allurement. Moreover, in my case, at all events, he took with entire good nature any insistence on one's own democratic conviction in opposition to Fascism. ALOOF FROM GTHEit A little time before my visit to the I Palazzo Venezia the dictatorial regime of the not particularly tyrannical Primo de Rivera had cuilapsed. Mussolini referred to this shipwreck of an alleged colleague in order to show how aloof Italian Fascism was from other dictatorships. If Fascism had felt any relationship to the Spanish regime it would have been possible for anyone to claim Primo de Rivera's fall as a defeat also for Fascism Mussolini made much of this point, and. if I am not mistaken, he first made use in this conversation of the phrase subsequently many times repeated, that Italian Fascism was not an article of export, but for home consumption only. It is certainly not easy to discover in the Mussolini of today any traces of the other Mussolini who used io have these friendly and peaceful discussions of political problems and of the things of the mind with men of other views than his. Liberals and democrats—of the Mussolini who still refused to persecute men on account of their race and who united a dictator's forcefulness with the discriminating forethought of the statesman, the Mussolini who was .iol prepared to turn the proud ship of his fortunes into an escort for an alien vessel, but followed his own independent course, keeping Italian Fascism free from unItalian influences. Beyond question the change dates from the Abyssinian | campaign and the Powers' mistaken sanctions policy. The Imperialist idea then attained full dominion in Italy, and the course then embarked on has been continued since. j