APOLOGY TO ITALY RESENTED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20891, 22 November 1937, Page 10

APOLOGY TO ITALY RESENTED

PROTESTS BY AFRICAN PRESS

“BRINGS SENSE OF HUMILIATION” United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright CAPETOWN, November 19. The Government's abject apology to the Italian Government for articles appearing in “The Natal Mercury" referring to the private lives of Signer Mussolini and his family is resented by the English Press. "The Cape Argus" while admitting that certain passages show, in the words of the apology, “extreme bad taste and lack of consideration for the feeling of the Italian people,” stresses that the Government was not responsible for a single word in the Press. The Government therefore. cannot apologise for the Press. “The Natal Mercury” iself says it was foolish to apologise and bring to a freedom-loving people a sense of humiliation in that the Government

had publicly prostrated itse’’ in such an abject fashion.

The Government apologised to Italy for two newspaper articles on Signor Mussolini, the following official statement being issued: “The Union Government has expressed its sincerest regret to the Italian Government for tlig extreme bad taste and utter lack of consideration of the feelings of the Italian people, and has offered the Government and people its sincerest apologeis.”