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CONDITIONS IN ITALY - LOW SUBSISTENCE LEVEL > * 'i v LONDON. Oct. 5 - Italy is paying dearly for Signor Mussolini's imperialism, says a traveller ■who has returned from a study of the country's conditions. He is Colonel T. F. Tweed, Mr. Lloyd George's political adviser. He states that Italy might have avoided an economic c-ollapso but for Mussolini's imperialistic astigmatism. The cost of the Abyssinian war and the sacrifices to maintain the illusion that an impoverished agricultural nation has become a first-class military Power have proved too great a strain now that foreign loans are unavailable. The Italian middle classes are forgoing, modest luxuries, and artisans and field workers are dispensing with butter and meat owing to their clearness and scarcity. Signor Mussolini, says Colonel Tweed, has psychologically rehabilitated Italy, but ha? reduced the masses to a level of subsistence Avhich is Asiatic in its squalor and monotony.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22860, 15 October 1937, Page 12
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