FASCISTS' POLICY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21755, 21 March 1934, Page 11

FASCISTS' POLICY

MUSSOLINI'S SPEECH RESENTMENT IN PARIS PARIS, March 19 The Paris newspapers resent the reference made by Signor Mussolini in his address in the Opera House, Pome, at the quinquennial meeting of the Fascist regime, that an armed State which was not executing one-fifth of the Versailles Treaty could not logically oppose the application of parity rights to Germany. Le Petit Parisien says the speech creates an atmosphere of trouble and a regrettable feeling of disappointment. Echo do Paris says Signor Mussolini is losing his sangfroid. His diplomatic undertaking failing, he feels the need to warm up an audience by trying to "out-Goering Goering." Figaro says Franco has made a great effort to uiidel'stand Italy's point of view, but there is no sign of any reciprocation in Signor Mussolini's speech. BRITISH ORGANISATION POLITICIANS' OPPOSITION TRADITIONS OF VIOLENCE LONDON, March 19 The Sun news service says British politicians generally are convinced that the public is not enamoured of Fascism. Many resent the importation of the movement, which, they say, is essentially un-British, as it aims at a despotic dictatorship, with traditions of violence in the suppression of opposition, which' distinguished its rise in Italy and Germany. Conservatives allege that the British Fascists' meetings are sometimes accompanied by personal violence toward persistent questioners. Their numbers throughout Britain probably are about 30,000. A smart uniform is their principal propaganda, and they are well drilled and regimented.