Evening star., 1943-10-07
BY FILIPPO BOJANO,

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 3
(By Wireless to MANA. Delayed).
Whittier Italy? The resuscitation
of Mussolini and the creation Of the
Republican Fascist government is
but Hitler -Himmler inspired tragi-
comedy. July Is provided a bad
upset for Hitler from the strategic,
political and prestige viewpoints. 1t
was like removing lung from the
Axis organism.
Born after Fascism. Nazism nev-
ertheless regarded Fascism as a
twin brother although the latter
was progressively forced to adapt
itself to the laws and principles
of the former, but Fascism had be-
come sort of moral alibi for Hitler.
The very interest and energy dis
played by the Fuehrer in the Duce's
liberation shows what severe am
putation July 25 was for Nazi Ger
many.
The first reports reaching Berlin
after July Is came from Ambassador
Hans Georg Won Mackensen and
his military attache, 1t. Gen. Won
Rintelen, the latter a man who
dominated Rome like a dictator for
the last two years. These reports
showed clearly that the Badoglio
anti-German and under this gov
ernment Italy went straight toward
an armistice with the Allies.
Himmler Visits Rome.
To clarity Italy's domestic situa-
ton and to try to find out what
could be saved from the crumbling
edifice, Heinrich Himmler went to
Rome. His mission was to learn
what would become of Mussolini
and If, after him, somebody else
would qualify to rally the scattered
forces of FaSclSm. The information
Himmler brought back to his
Fuehrer was discouraging. The first
goal evidently would be to liberate
Mussollni. Regarding the military
situation. the dispatch to Italy of
a number Of divisions. under the
command of Marshal Erwin Rom
mel, was prescribed as the remedy,
The man the Germans rescued
from Gran Sasso was completely
finished, however-both physically
and, above all, morally. I have
known Mussollni we'll for 20 years,
his character. his pride, his megalo-
mania. His inglorious exit on July
Is and the scandals since revealed
by the italian press on the political
disorder of late years, including
Fascist graft without mentioning
Mussollni's own love affairs and rid
icule, have finished the man who
considered himself literally a Her
cules.
Mussolini realizes today that he
has lost his hold over his people,
and those still paying lip service to
Fascism are moved only by personal
interests. No love remains for the
forgotten theology, which proved a
grand deception, The curtain has
fallen and behind 1t the Duce is
asking himself of what use is lib
Grafton
But the world has forgotten a per-
son who. I am certain, will bob UP
in the future-meaning 50-year-old
Roberto Farinacci. A brief presen-
tation is sufficient for this Fascist
luminary. He is the most ignorant
and at the same time the most
criminal among his colleagues. This
politician Journalist, radical Fascist.
owner of the newspaper. II Regime
Fascista, and member of the Fascist
Grand Council for the last eight
years, first appeared on the stage
after the Matteoti affair when his
role was that of calming popular in
dignation over the murder of Gio-
como Matteotti, Socialist deputy.
Series of Trips to Germany.
In his Cremona newspaper he
blasted his newspaper adversaries
like a new Cato. When the Axis
was formed Farinacci began a long
series of trips to Germany, first Off
cially and afterward on his own
initiative. The German gauleiter
methods are his ideal. He became
the friend of all Nazi leaders, in
Guiding Julius Streicher, and he
sent his adjutants and editors to
Germany to learn the Nazi tech
nique.
l already have described how
Farinacci introduced a resolution
during the last Grand Council ses-
sion which was tantamount to the
abdication of Italian military COM
mand in favor of a German high
| command and of how he sneaked
out and disappeared to Germany