MUSSOLINI’S DESIRES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4188, 24 May 1939, Page 4

MUSSOLINI’S DESIRES

THAT INVITATION TO ROME. "The invitation to Rome,” says the Yorkshire Post, “was given originally at Munich, where the Duce was witness of the attainment by Herr Hitler of important German objectives by a 1 threat of force. The Duce was almost bound to conceive the idea that if Germany could be so successful along those lines in Central Europe, the same procedure might lead to similar Italian gains in the Mediterranean and in Africa, without even a blow being struck. He was mistaken both because public opinion in Britain and France has recovered its coolness and judgment, having witnessed the actual results of the Munish surrender, and because the Prime Minister himself, as he has publicly admitted, has been disappointed by the lack of reciprocity shown from the German side to his efforts at appeasement since Munich. Opinion in French circles is that Signor Mussolini intends to pursue his claims, which Germany is strongly backing, and that they may be stated definitely < first by Herr Hitler in his speech announced for January 30, to which both Italy and Germany are attaching great importance.”