Dictators’ Pledges to Friendship

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 107, 9 May 1938, Page 7

Dictators’ Pledges to Friendship

Hitler Will Show Friendship When Needed PRESERVATION OF UNITY United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. ROME, May 7. Two hundred attended the banquet to Herr Hitler in the Palazzo Vienzia. Senor Mussolini, welcoming Herr Hitler, declared: “This visit seals the German-ltalian understanding we so firmly willed and tenaciously constructed and which has a historic function in parallel permanent interests for the nations. “Fascist Italy knows only one ethical law of friendship which is obtained by German-ltalian collaboration consecrated in the Rome-Berlin axis. “Italy and Germany have abandoned the Utopias to which Europe has blindly entrusted its fortunes in order to seek between ourselves and with others a regime of international co-operation which may erect more effective guarantees of justice, security and equitable peace. “This can only be reached when the elementary rights of each people to live, work and defend itself are loyally recognised and the political equilibrium corresponds with historical realities.” Herr Hitler, responding, said: “Nazism and Fascism have created two new powerful nations, a bloc of 120,000,000, who arc determined to preserve the eternal right to love and protect their equal interests and ideological unity against all forces endeavouring to resist their natural development. “It is my unshakable will and legacy to Germany that it forever regards the Italian-German alpine frontier as inviolable. “Just as you and the Italians preserved your friendship tewards Germany in the decisive days, so shall I and my people show Italy friendship in a serious hour.” AIR DISPLAY POSTPONED Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. ROME, May 7. Rain and bad visibility postponed the air display for Herr Hitler. DUCE PARADES ARMY BEFORE HITLER TEN-YEAR-OLD SOLDIERS OF THE FUTURE ROME, May 0. Standing on a raised marble platform facing the Palatine Hill and the ruined palaces of the Caesars, Herr Hitler, with the King of Italy on bis right and Signor Mussolini on his left, took the salute of 30,000 troops representing e\ery branch of 8-million “bayonets.’* Signor Mussolini had previously stated that he could mobilise a wartime parade. The parade included 400 tanks, 400 guns, 200 mortars, and lorries equipped with gas cylinders. The colonies were represented by white-clad spahis (native soldiers), mounted Arabs and Libyan cavalry. Five thousand troops goose-stepped past the platform, and crack Bersaglieri doubled past the Fuhrer, with the band playing stirring music. The youngest members of the parade were barelegged baillas under ten years of age carrying dummy muskets; they represented the armies of the future. There were unusual interlude?. An observation balloon was released. As it reached Herr Hitler it rose, with two officers standing at attention in the gondola. Then a van abreast of the dictators suddenly opened, releasing hundreds of carrier pigeons.

FUTURE OF TRIESTE ITALY CONCERNED AT GERMANY’S ACTION ROME, May 6. Bignor Mussolini and Herr Hitler excnanged views which are reported to concern the future of Trieste. Italy is concerned with Germany's diversion of Austrian trade to Hamburg and her desire to develop her own services from Trieste, which is prejudicial to Italian monopoly in the Adriatic A semi-official statement from the German side criticises foreign Press reports of Herr Hitler’s visit, and declares that they betray an unfriendly attitude towards Italo-German splidarity, which exists in some quarters abroad despite assurances to the contrary. The statement threatens that this attitude will certainly be taken unfavourbly into • account at the forthcoming diplomatic developments. The Daily Telegraph’s Rome correspondent says that Herr Hitler escorted Queen Elene at the reception in his honour given by the Governor of Rome. Signor Mussolini was not present. Italian newspapers were instructed not to mention the luncheon. Dr. Goebbels failed to turn up because, it is reported, Jews were among those invited. A tragic coincidence was that General Siciliani, who organised to day’s gigantic military display, died at the very moment it opened. He contracted pneumonia while rehearsing in the rain. Immediately after the appearance of 520,000 before Herr Hitler will come a decree making preliminary training compulsory for all males between 18 and 21.