ITALY ARMING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1928, Page 7

ITALY ARMING

ANOTHER CALL POSSIBLE SUGGESTED BY MUSSOLINI. NATION’S DESIRE FOR PEACE. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association —United Service.) Received 9.50 a.m to-day. ROME, Dec. 9 Si "nor Mussolini, in a speech at the final session of Parliament,-said : »« want peace. We signed the Kellogg pact and are ready to sign any other pact- but at the same time we do not want to commit «■ crime against any nation. We must face reality, vhich is that the whole world is arming. TV e do not want to disturb European equilibrium, but we must be ready. t - - body, therefore, ought to be astonished if I call on the nation for another sacrifice, enabling the perfection of all orn forces on sea, on land and m the < • Even our adversaries have admitted that Fascist Italy’s foreign policy is logical and pacific. The penod otransitory partnerships . h *f we must be most careful befo , ® c^ lcn ing friendship to anyone, but. when there is a pact the people should knon that, either friendship or the revel se, -we shall go- to the end.