Evening star., 1926-12-17

appeaiing to it's citizens realistic
sense more than to the spirit OF sac
| rifice: the loan is good business for
| the subscriber.
"The money attained is destined
| not for the state budget. which al
ready shows a surplus, but for the
| industrial and economic development
| of the nation. It will, therefore, have
a good effect on the crisis OF the cur
rency and the crisis in industry"
Contrary to the calamity shouting
| of his opponents, the premier said,
i, the new system of a state without
elections was already producing bene
ficial results.
TecEnicians Are Selected.
IAN acute analysis of the Italian
political system, he continued, shows
| that, outside the electoral system, a
process of political and administrar
ton selection of competent men,
which might be called non-off1cial, is
| operating. Henceforth, technicians
will take the places of so-called pure
politicians.
THE syndical movement has al
ready taken tangible shape beside the
parliamentary state. To a certain
extent the incorporated state-which
in the social field is the supreme
intuition of the Fascist revolution
| is already SURPRISING and eXcelling
the parliamentary state.
lat any rate. the Italians haven't
any sympathy for universal suffrage.
because they have known by bitter
experience that it is not a system best
adapted to reveal their values and
| that it is impossible to constitute a
real directive class on the basis of
such a system.
"This is demonstrated by the fact
| that Italy has never had an election
in which more than 40 per cent of the
electors participated"
| 1t was at this point that Mussolini
| stopped speaking of the problems Of
! his country, and, with O. boyish look
| seldom seen on his face, voiced his
| longing to see America, the land of
| energy.
French Friendship Sought.
A Franco-Italian agreement is one
Of the fundamental necessities of Eu-
ropean evolution, Premier Mussolini
declared.
The Duce's guiding idea is the neces-
sity for providing for Italy's crying
need for moral, spiritual and physical
expansion by means of a pacific, but
not pacifist, policy. The fulfillment of
these needs, Italy's master main
tained, far from being incompat-
ible with friendship and cooperation
with other rations, really requires CO.
operation and mutual understanding
with them, notably with France and
England.
Mussolini declared himself to be a
firm believer in the restoration of the
European balance of power. expressing
the conviction that such equilibrium
constitutes the formula best adapted
for the maintenance of peace.
Referring to the so-called Asiatic
peril, he urged the necessity of aban-
doning the tendency to regard Asiatics
as barbarians, giving as his opinion
that all peril from the Orient will
have ceased to exist when the mental
barriers between the Eastern and
Western peoples are broken down.
The leader of Fascism, his face
beaming with health and vigor, de-
spite the fact that the reception came
after a six-hour-long constant stream
of interviews with cabinet ministers
and officials, which would have ex-
hausted any ordinary human being.
installed himself behind his huge desk
as If prepared to withstand a siege.
Balance Of Power Theory.
II am entirely in favor Of the res
toration of balance and equilibrium as
a formula most adapted for maintain.
ing peace" the premier continued II
believe that If we place two identical
weights on the two sides of an ideal
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