The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-11
' Fair Encuuh
By WESTBROOK prcTT'

are those of the author s'': .as
may not always baTroaAd
WIN Its position.-The Edita1s
NEW YORK, Feb. m-n
when the King of Kings 10 a TIM
the Bum of Buns out Of A5 rrtssa'
it is fitting to suggest A .5y
feelings of any A~byssinians ' t., y
are among us deserve tho wy
consideration as the tend rr SAM
bilities of those who insist ssn':
garding themselves as 1te III =
though Americans, too. N t,a5,aSi
less there is still a supers.i. u
that to applaud the Nep,,s s".1
the Greeks and British and a. y
at the Duce in full flight lug
create disunity in the rS;..1
States. o''!'s
In Providence, R. l.. in fart
alien settlement giving devotio, !.
the Duce, or Bum, has succaa.
in excluding from the local Ar.
can press articles which fail
respect to Mussolini and his ~
ishing 1nvincibles. Such cons;S,'
alton for a foreign group. lo',
to a potential and more than b;1
declared enemy of the Unit
States, is elaborate courtesy \
be sure, but is equally as rr;.'
to our Abyssinians, if apy w.
our Greeks and British. as il !
polite to the Italians.
Any Other Country
Is there any other country =,
deviled by fears of hurting +,
feelings of persons who profes, !
be loyal citizens but, at the SAM
time, resent and attempt to pu9ir
expressions of opinion concern,
its enemies? If there are Ital;,
in this country, what rights b;,
they here which Americans in /
ally are not accorded? And va,
should anyone in the United STATE
be expected to speak or write KIM
ly or refrain from expressing him
self unkindly regarding the Dur.
or Bum, and the Italian peovh
Should this country go to war, 4.
Italian people will be the enen.
along with Mussolini.
1t is persistently argued that ii:
conduct of the Buns Invincios
on all fronts is not a measure 1
their soldierly qualities. Asidt
from the fact that both the Frend
and British said years before hi
war that Mussolini would need u
M. P.'s for every soldier, the ta
remains that these persons VII
have been advancing to the re-
with such Irresistible dash are i
dubitably Italian soldiers. They al
not Swedes, Spaniards or Russia
but Italians, most of whom ha'
been trained for soldering eY
since they were children, and th
have Individually been running Ii
thieves and, to make matters mo
humiliating, running from a bre
whom the Bum of Buns desCrib
as miserable towards, to wit, I
British.
So what does that make the 1t
ians and why should the Italia
alone, of all peoples, be spar
appropriate comment by a peol
whose form of government, inStl
tons and character have been
flied by the Italian government
years?
Serious Discourtesy
And if we are to concede Il
Americans may be, in some
gree, Italians, too, then it folio
that other Americans may be !
yssinian, Greek or British in
same degree and entitled to eq'
consideration. That being grant
it was a serious discourtesy
them to refrain from recognlz
their remarkable exploits agar
the Bum of Buns at the eXpel
of the Italian soldiers.
What, for example, are the ie
ings of a Greek-American, gra
ing for the sake of argument tt
hyphenism is consisten "
American citizenship, when he
asked to pretend that the enel
are not Italian soldiers but, In
language of the old lynch.
stories, a crowd of unidentll
men? Our Greek-American fire
wants to emit a few cheers
the homefolks and in doing 50
certainly wants to give them
credit for slapping the ears
the most bombastic and rldlcull
fourflusher that the world l
ever known, who happens 10
an Italian, the ruler OF the l'aA
nation and the commander OIL
Italian army which has been Sl
ting and Dragging for 10 yea
It does seem that anyone "
remains. somehow, loyal TO
Bum and Italy should be sPo u
man enough to take it, no" u
the Abyssinians, tn Sc cav.
semi-savage dog-eaters, the ule'
and the craven British nave
posed the fraud. But, in any Co
anyone calling himself Amen
who still persists in beng son VI
what Italian, cannot erase the L.
that those are Italian soldiers W
have made this humiliating ian.
after so much Threatening d !
boasting. .ho+
And one may be sure tna d.,
they had won a couple Oh wv
campaigns nobody would Dc III :
planning that, after all, III
weren't Italians. Nobody salu W
when the Bum Of Buns looh w
Ababa from the King Oh nj
four years ago.