ITALY TO PREPARE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 May 1927, Page 5

ITALY TO PREPARE

FUTURE EVENTUALITIES.

CHANGING THE NATION.

MUSSOLINI’S PROPHESY

j Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. ROME, Alay 26. “One duty Italy will have win be to place o,L>oo,uoj men in lull war eltieieney, able to be easily mobilised, to meet tne eventualities of sucli movements as ‘steel Helmets,’ ’’ said Signor Alussolini in the Chamber ox ijeputies, relernng to the German patriotic organisation. He prophesied that Europe’s most critical moments would be between 1935 and 1940. Italy must then be efficient, and her air force must- be developed to its maximum: Italy, in ten years, he said, 'would be so transformed as not to be recognisable by foreigners, or even by Malians themselves.

Signor Mussolini said the country must be purged of all disturbing elements. He denied reports from abroad that there were 200,000 antiFascists confined on the islands. There were only 600. Italy must have a population ot 60,000,000 by the .second half of the century. The day would periiups come when there would be a tax on bachelors, followed by a tax on childless marriages. • He criticised the weakness of democratic rule, instancing France and Germany. He foresliadwoed Italy as a co-operative State with a Parliament based on free electoral suffrage without opposition; a country where all were for the State and none were against it. They were all one people. At the conclusion of his .speech he received an ovation, the people singing the Fascisti hymn.