The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-04
BY WEsTBROOK PEc,pp

"AoNA TELLER
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-A)i tr,,.
lovers of that beautiful fascigt o,Y
ture would take esthetic pleas,ma
l am sure, in the perusal of . fiI,'
OF mail such as invariably follows
any reference in print to tha ~
culiar military triumphs of BcnYto
Mussolini's dauntless ~InvincibloS
Of course, we vulgar paryenus -,
the coarse and raucous Americ.n
breed a hardly expect to ann,o
ciate fully the loneliness of thongb4
which flows SO sweetly from ths
pens of the Duce's loyal subjects
in u midst, but even we c,r
sense the finer beauty which wa
cannot fully understand. After all
dull as Americans are, we some
times r heard to exclaim that an
uncommonly colorful sunset is roaI
pretty or swell Or cute. Thus. al.
though the deeper pools of the Fas.
cist nature defeat our understand.
ing, even we catch a charminr
spiritual glimpse from a communi'
cation such as, for example. this,
"You filthy, cowardly, yellow
cur:
Il hope you will be murdered
some day by one of your dirtv
American swine. You are as loonv
as a %cockroach, and you stink IN
the house. I hope you will die in
agony and that God may curse Won
and your dirty wife, and if you are
not too degenerate to have rats,
may they be cursed, too"
True Spirit
This Invincible yes in Rich.
mond, Va, but though he reveals
the true spirit of the Duce's In.
domitables, I have to say, in care.
full justice to Mussolini's culture.
that the writer does not possess the
gift of beauty which is found in the
spontaneous expressions of some
others. 1t will be noted that he al.
lows himself only one mention Of
degeneracy, and that a rather
glancing allusion, whereas more
artistic flowers on the stalk of Fas.
ist culture delight to wallow in a
topic that seems to be an obses-
sion. They rub it in their hair.
Americans, having no apprecia.
ton of this sort of thing, doubtless
would be bored by samples, so |
refrain from casting pearls before
those whom our Richmond Fascist
friend calls swine.
1t seems that nothing stirs the
cultural being of the Fascist in our
contemplate land as deeply as re-
minders of the military feats of the
little nation which t a k e S orders
from Hitler, transmitted through
Sergeant Mussolini. So sensitive
are they that, whereas the peoples
of less noble nations take pride in
telling off the names of famous
battlers, in Italy, under Mussolini,
Caporetto A dowa, Guadalajara
and now Albania are, like the
name of the diety, forbidden to the
tongue. And, of course, the mere
mention of these historic scenes
by a foreigner is proclamation de-
serving, as our Richmond friend
suggests, the death penalty by
cruel and unusual means
Albania did not become a hal
lowed battle name until the de.
spicable Greeks, alarmed and few
in number, started chasing the
Duce's Imperial Legions back over
the mountains and crying, "On to
Rome" While the Italian army
was advancing, while the Indom-
tables we're ganging up on the TN
armed, unmilitary sidehill dodgers
of the Albanian country it was not
merely legal but quite the thing to
speak of Albania in public, But
after the fight went into the char
acteristic military direction of the
Indomitables, which is to say re-
verse, then the name became sa-
cred, along with the other symbols
Of Fascist glory.
"You, you despicable liar" says
a quiet note which breatheS Of
beauty, may you rot and choke
on your own %coWardly lies, you
louise. An Italian woman who splts
in your face"
Again you feel, if you are not loo
dense, the culture of Fascist ltaIy'
and here, in slightly different form
but in the same, unmistakable spI-
it, we have another expression;
Your insulting, malicious ana
hateful editorials have detLnltey
touched us. The person who are"
this card Gan Ace of Spades, III
closed is under oath to touch you
by the best and only method Tor d
rat like yourself. A 80 caliber oui'
let through your lungs, in the mos
silent manner. You have been d.
together too unfriendly. Too oao'
but it must be done.
This was signed "The Commit
tee"
We are a young, raw people'
we Americans, who cannot undei.
stand the culture of the Duce, DIV
such chance manifestations maxi
us aware that we are mlSS"is
something wonderful, n way u
another.