Evening star., 1939-05-15
BY the Associated Press,

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TURIN, Italy, May 15.-Follo,pino
is the tert OF an address By Premier
Mussoltni before a mass meeting
here yesterday:;
People of Savoyan and Fascist
Turin, hardworking and faithful
comrades:
Do you remember the final words
of the speech I had the honor to
make before you seven years ago
Advance and build and if neces-
sary fight and conauer?"
Looking backward over these past
seven years I now again have the
fortune and joy to be among you
I ask you: Have the italian people
remained faithful to this task?
(Shouts of "yes!") Will the italian
people remain faithful? The Italian
people have indeed advanced and
built, they have fought and con-
quered; fought and conquered in
Africa against an enemy which
European military experts guaran-
ted to be absolutely unbeatable.
Guaranteed" you understand
Oh, the eternal success of certain
guarantees!
Fought and conquered against the
sanctionist coalition organized under
the League of Nations, which lies
entombed and unwept in the great
mausoleum erected for it on the
shore of Lake Geneva
Fought and conquered in Spain at
the side of the heroic soldiers of
Franco against a democratic Boil
shevist coalition which emerged
from the struggle literally shat
tered.
"War or Peace?" World Asks.
The result of these seven years:
Conquest of empire, union of AL
bania and Italy and an increase of
our power in all fields.
While I am speaking millions OF
men, perhaps hundreds of millions
of men, in all parts of the world
through the heights and depths of
optimism and pessimism are ask
ing: Will there be war or peace?
A serious question for all, but
especially for those who at a given
moment must take the responsibility
of deciding.
I answer this question by declar-
ing that according to a cold objec-
tive examination of the situation,
there are not at present in Europe
problems big enough or acute
enough to justify a war which by
logical development would spread
from Europe and become univer-
sal event.
There are knots in European poll
tics but recourse to the sword is,
perhaps, not necessary to cut them.
Nevertheless, there is need that
these knots be united once and for
all because sometimes a hard reality
is preferable to a long. uncertainty
This is not only the thought of
Italy but also of Germany and thus
the aXis-of that axis, which. after
many years of parallel action of the
two regimes and of the two revolu-
tlons, will become through the pact
OF Milan and through the military
alliance which will be signed this
month at Berlin an indivisible COM
munion of two states and two
peoples.
Will March With Germany.
Those who, perhaps, with inverted
telescopes, have at times perceived
a possible split or fracture now will
be confused and Inundated. Let
no one harbor further ridiculous
delusions nor abandon himself to
superficial 'casuistry because the
dostrine of Fascism is clear and nv
will as inf1exible as before. and even
more so.
AS before, and even better than
before, we shall march with Ger
many to give Europe that peace
with justice which is the profound
desire of all peoples.
The polemic-makers of the great
democracies are invited to render
judgment as fair as this point of
view of ours.
We do not desire peace simply
because our internal situation is,
as has been noted, catastrophe. It
is now II years that our adversaries
have awaited the famous catastrophe
IN vain, and they will wait a whole
lot longer.
And not because of physical fear