The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-29
CAMPAIGN AG-AINST ITALIAN EXPANSION AXES NEW
 TURN
Waterbury, Conn,
 March 27, 1887.

MATCIl ~, 4t0ts f Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 The Spanish civil war and the reprisal against the plotters of the att smpted assassination of the vice. roy of Ethiopia, Marshal Graziani, in AddiS Ababa, has given impetus to 8 revival of anti-Italian and anti Fascist utterances dressed with de- viouS exaggeration, hypocracy and the vile fabrication of facts, which were identified with the defender of the Ethiopian slavery and of the communists destructors of religion and ,rder.
 This time I do not intend to de+ fend the Italians and the action of their government, because I believe that {. good cause courageously enn- braced and a right justly exercised have not need of vindication; but I do intend to prove, if your courtesy will permit me, the fallaciousdless of the presentation of events dealing with Italians and Italy government ny certain international agencies and by some high personalities of the British Empire,
 It Is fact communicated by the Italian government without decept- i've words that immediately after the a empted assassination of Marshal Graziani few hundreds of Ethio- plans were executed because found in possession of arms in defiance ot government decree, which forbid such possession under penalty of d, tn. This drastic application of ls v may be called cruel by persons not at cognition of the history of colonial occupation by other na- tions, but this same. word in the mouth of statesmen and represen- tai yes of the most imperialiStic na- ton in the world is absurd, aStound- inc. And to be sure the most slash- ing sermons are given by some of tk. ,se imperialist Englishmen. Why, of all the people?
 They forget the ruthless suppress sion of Indian revolts of yesterday an1 of today? They do not know about certain tribes, in certain parts of Asia, that were, in time very gently, unmercifully bombarded an machine gunned from airplanes only because their leaders refused the delivery of taxation in form of COWS and other goods? :. They are ignorant of the dreadful fate of other tribes in an African colony which, even more recently, were de- cimated because a British low of r. .al was killed during personal argument with natives?
 Nevertheless, that short, memory of the English can be laughed at L :ye consider the superlatiye opin- ion which the Englishmen have of themselves, and for which they pre- sumptuously believe that any ac- ton is right and legal if taken by tn .ir government; but we cannot easily laugh when the same occur rences are ignored by the interna- tional press agencies and by the Am erican national newspapers which are delighted in publishing, in the most visible place and with almost pica characters, the injurious vitu- eration of the Archbishop of Can terbury or of Lloyd George againsi the Italian people and the Italian government. That way of treating h terilational news is not only an intentional partial act, when 1t is apt to create bad feelings and peril ious misunderstanding among peo- pie.
 In the other end, the news of the Spanish civil war is treated with more frightful inclination at biased conclusions or with always one side e demnation, and many times with propaganda-ing imaginary news ol c, .menting words and phrases from important sources" in a way that 1, intended to irritate one of the parts il discussion. and consequently accentuating the already dangerous tension.
 For example: It is known that for many months in both sides oi th., civil war factions influenced q great lumber ot volunteers from all most every country in the, world, es- pccially from Russia, France, Ger many and Italy, but in spite of that w..ile the thousands of communists i.Src Russia and France are always mentioned as volunteers. or mol