MUSSOLINI AND HITLER

Franklin Times, Volume XXV, Issue 59, 24 May 1935, Page 6

MUSSOLINI AND HITLER

DICTATORS STICK TOGETHER.

“ When Mu'ssolini and Hitler met on Italian soil the story went round the centres of diplomatic gossip that the Duice said to the Reichsfuehrer: We dictators are under fire in the world to-day. It is a critical time for authoritarian regimes. We must stand together. It may not be true, but it has the merit of being m character. In any case, Mussolini had more than the obvious reasons for being annoyed with the newcomer to the dictator school when the latter brought himself into general bad odour, and all the dictatorship regimes to the edge of a premature test of their solidity, by his action (or, it may be, weak inaction) in regard to Austria. He has been long enough at the dictator game to be fully -alive to the necessity, in a world which is economically and to a considerable degree financially and culturally international, of conciliating foreign public opinion, and keep alive the carefully fostered legend of the superiority of dictatorship over democracy.”—From “ Time and Tide ” (London).