ITALY MUST FACE FACTS MUSSOLINI SAYS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 99, 10 December 1928, Page 5

ITALY MUST FACE FACTS MUSSOLINI SAYS

“WHOLE WORLD ARMING W£ MUST BE READY’*

LOGICAL FOREIGN POLICY. DESIRE FOR PEACE.' (Received 8.55 a.m.) ROME, December 9. iMussclini, in a speech at the final session of Parliament, said: “We want peace. We signed the Kellogg Pact, and are ready to sign any other pacts, but at the same time, w e do not want to commit a crime against any nation. We must face reality, which is that the whole world is arming. Wo do not want to disturb the European equilibrium, but we must 1 b e ready. Nobody therefore ought to be astonished if I call on the nation for another sacrifice, enabling the perfection of all our forces cn sea and land and in jthe air.

Even adversaries have admitted that Fascist Italy’s foreign policy is logical and pacific. The period of transitory partnerships has ended), an-d we must be most careful before extending friendship to anyone, but when there is a pact the people should know (that either in friendship cr the reverse we will, go to the end.”—Australian Press Assn.