Evening star., 1940-06-03
Army Mobilization
Goes Ahead QUIETLY;
Notices Are Mailed
Public Awaits Word
Of First Blow for
National Aspirations
By the Associated Press.


ROME, June 3-The italian gov
ernment today announced indefinite
postponement of the 1912 Rome
exposition. which Premier Mussolini
once referred to as proof that Italy
was not planning to 60 to war.
The reason given Tor the post
ponement was that several nations
had requested more time to prepare
exhibits.
Italys "behind-t e-scenes" mill
tary mobilization proceeded, mean
while, with the pink cards which
call up reservists being delivered at
additional homes in every mail
Yugoslavia Sends Delegation.
Apparently indicating that Italy
does not intend to invade Yugosla-
via, delegation from that country
came to Rome for trade talks.
Italians are reported seeking more
livestock, wood eggs, minerals and
coal from Yugoslavia in exchange
for cotton, wool rayon. yarns, ma
chinery. automobiles and vegetables.
Chairman of the Provincial Com
mittees for the Organization of
Blood Donors discussed plans to
meet emergency demands for trans
fuslons."
The conference was officially de-
scribed as having unusual i'm
portance at the present moment"
1t was attended also by represen-
tatives of the army, navy and air
force
The delegate of the women's Sec
ton of the Fascist party promised
the cooperation of Italian women.
Residents of Turin, Italy's big
industrial center close to the
French frontier. were urged by the
press to depart for country districts
as the nation quietly prepared for
war.
Grown Prince Umberto of Italy
has left Rome for Turin to take
command of his army, the Ger
man radio said today in broad
cast picked up by Columbia
Broadcasting Systems listening
station in New York. Prince Um-
berto is commander of half the
Italian Army
Zero Hour Believed Near.
Throughout Italy the population
convinced that the zero hour is not
far distant, anXiously awaited word
as TO where and when the first blow
would be struck in behalf of long
agitated national aspirations.
The individual notification system
obviated the necessity of posting
general mobilization proclama-
ton, but any doubt that the army
is being put on wartime footing
was dissolved by the authoritative
Fascist editor Giovanni AnSaldo in
his weekly broadcast to Italian
troops
Mobilization is under way" An
saldo, editor of Foreign Minister
Count Galeazzo Ciano's newspaper,
II TELEGRAPH of Leghorn, declared
emphatically.
He said that lever stronger con-
tingents" are reaching concentra-
tion points and warned unmobilized
reservists that they might expect a
call to arms at any moment.
Cabinet Meets Tomorrow.
Some quarters ventured the
opinion that some announcement
concerning Premier Mussolinis in
tentions might follow the scheduled
meeting of the italian cabinet to-
morrow, but this possibility was
secuted by the newspaper II Resto
del Carlino, a leading exponent of
intervention. II Resto forecast,
however, that Italy would move
soon.
Some observers believed the arrival
of the Italian liner Conte di Savoia
at Genoa yesterday after emitting
the usual Naples stop, had brought
the deadline closer.
Fascist circles found cause for
satisfaction in the address which
Premier Reyflk Saydam of Turkey
broadcast yesterday to his nation
Although Saydam declared Turkey
was ready to take up arms "in de-
fense of the fatherland," he failed
to mention Turkeys mutual assist
ance pact with Great Britain and
France-a fact to which Fascist COM
mentators attached great import
ance.
The Italian press continued to
devote considerable space to stories
of Spanish demonstrations against
British control of Gibraltar. At the
same time the official Italian news
agency, Stefani, said there were
rumors that the Allies were planning
to land troops in the international
zone at Tangier, on the African side
of the Strait of Gibraltar.
The purpose of this move, it was
said would be to obtain base from
which to defend their interests
against Spains claims on Gibraltar.
Indictment Campaign Charged.
Stefani also said a Campaign of
Indictment against Italians" is in
progress in French Morocco and AL
geria
In his broadcast address yester-
day, Ansaldo demanded to know
how a people like the Italians, with
all our energy, can remain outside a
great contest like the present one
in which all the great peoples of
Europe are participating and which
will decide the destiny of Europe
If Italy should stay out" he said
ait would signify irreparable deca-
dence, kind of disqualification
You would suffer the consequences
of this disqualification. To be Ital-
ians would mean to be feeble
cowardly.
I'VE must act then to maintain
our moral position and affirm it
That means fight"
Ansaldo named Corsica, Tunisia
Dale Carnegie INSTITUTE