“NOTHING DISCREDITABLE”
MUSSOLINI’S MOTOR MISHAP
MORE OF “HIT AND RUN” STORY “POSSIBLE TRAGEDY AVOIDED” (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2 p.m. to-day. NEIVV YORK, Feb. 16. In a statement to-day at Los An geles (Mr Oornelius Vanderbilt, junr. ■described the alleged story of the ‘‘hit and run” automobile accident saying there was nothing at all discreditable to Signor (Mussolini. He added : “I told the story not- as an indictment but merely as an interesting, and drinnatici episode in the life of a. great man.” Mi- Vanderbilt said that a car driven by Signor Mussolini ran over a. child during a military inspection. He was driving with the Premier at his invitation. Mr Vanderbilt did not know if the child was hurt badly. “(I. recognised at the time, that every precaution had been taken lor the safety of onlookers. Signor Mussolini was 'not to blame. Furthermore, 1 realised that to stop would have served mi purpose. “Driving on was not cowardly in an endeavour to avoid detection. Had Signor Mussolini stopped at a time of possible danger to himself (anti-Fas-cists were believed to have been in the crowd) it might have precipitated a riot or even a great tragedy.”
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 17 February 1931, Page 9
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