MUSSOLINI CONDEMNED

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4845, 14 May 1936, Page 6

MUSSOLINI CONDEMNED

DICTATORSHIP'S DOPE. " The fact is that no dictatorship, whether by an individual or a committee, even when claiming to represent the ' people ' or that section of it known as the ' proletariat,' can sustain itself for many years except by creating a psychological state in the mass akin to that of war. In order to distract attention from the genuine loss of individual liberty and the real nature of the Government, the ilhtsion of an ' enemy,' the capitalist class, some institution or other has to be created so that the people will make the same sacrifices which they have formerly been induced to make by the propaganda and hysteria of war and the military operations against a "human foe who is painted as threatening all which they hold

dear. All emotions tend to exhaustion, and if they are to be maintained must receive stronger and stronger stimulation. The supporter of a dictatorship is much in the position of a drug addict, and the longer it lasts the greater is the conflict between natural exhaustion and artificial stimulation. The Italian people, exhausted by a dozen years of forced adulation, have been offered the strongest drug in a dictator's powed to administer—a foreign war." — James Truslow Adams, in " Scribner's Magazine."