Where Stands Mussolini?

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 538, 22 August 1932, Page 6

Where Stands Mussolini?

To the Editor. Dear Sir, —It is impossible to either admire Mussolini or to admit that he is honest when measured in terms of justice or intelligent reasoning: although his brutal honesty and his integrity to the Facist regime cannot be questioned. Determined at all costs, and able by reason of absolute dictatorial powers to enforce his policy, Mussolini > stands out prominently as the last defender of Italian Capitalisfn: and with one swoop 1 his ruthlessness to all opposition destroyed whatever illusions the Italian workers may have possessed as to his policy and his treatment of anti-Fascist bodies. ” If it should be necessary we shall again raise our clubs and take up the knife .... we shall not tolerate the abuse of our enemies. We shall destroy them, smash them and bury them,” stated Mussolini, and to the student such utterances arc consistent with the last and final defender of the power of private exploitation. No More War,” with his references to the ruthlessness of Mussolini, in reality has also disclosed the relation war has to our system of society. Rob Mussolini of his brutal and diabolical power and abolish war as a means of settling disputes between the nations and immediately the voice of reason would definitely attack the power, which violated the almost unanimous desire of the individual, for peace on earth and good will to all men.—l am, etc., A.C.E.