MISCHIEF MAKERS
EMBITTERING FRIENDSHIP (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON. Bth August. Wliat could he done to embitter oldstanding Anglo-Italian friendship the Italian press has assiduously done. There lias been a campaign of scurrilous abuse and mendacious vilification. But now Fleet Street is actually holding a caudle to the devil. A preposterous storv has been dug up from the columns “of a Paris journal and reprinted here us worthy of credence, about a “mysterious Englishman,” said to he an "ex-officer acting on behalf of our Secret Service, who has disguised himself as a native, and is travelling round Abyssinia, rallying the tribal chieftains to unite under their Emperor in resisting the Italian invasion. It is an obviously clumsy attempt to stage another Lawrence of Arabia act in a new setting, and no doubt the Italian press will seize it. with avidity to substantiate their calumnies, “it* is deplorable that London journalism should help to holster u n the old “perfidious Albion” idea on the Continent,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1935, Page 5
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