ITALY IN ABYSSINIA

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12903, 2 July 1936, Page 6

ITALY IN ABYSSINIA

WILL A CHOCOLATE EMPIRE RESULT LONDON, A!ay 30, Is Abyssinia to degenerate into 'am ItaUan chocolate Empire? A warning bv Professor J. B. S. Haldane on tho biological consequences of the Italian conquest appears ’simultaneously with a cry of ’ailairm to the same effect, in the Rome newspapers. Professor Haldano says: “Th - consequences for human biology of the Italian conquest of Ethiop'a di> not seem, to have attracted much attention. The Duce proposes to settle a quarter of w million Italian families in that- country. They are to settle as peasants. It can Ik? predicted’ that they will intei breed with the Ethiopians. Tb's is inevitable when European settlors arc on an econoin o level nuti much übuvft that of the natives.” It is also inevitable if the Italian Government attempts to live up to tho Roman pol'cy embodied in Claiudian’s l'no, Haeo est in greniiuin viclos qua;? sola recepit. (“She 'alone takes the conquered to her bosom.”) “The same Roman policy will involve a far closer union between Italy aiul Italian Ethiopia! than exists between, Britain and her Dominions, and a larger interchange of' population. , Wo must, therefore, look forward to a considerable influx of Etlropian blood into Italy. “It would be impertinent for a biologist to predict the historical consequences 'Of smell an event. But I dol not tliiiiki that it would be regligihle for the future of Europe.”