Query & Right

"Frankly, I do not understand British policy," said Benito Mussolini to his favorite U. S. Newshen Anne O'Hare McCormick in Rome recently. "Do you understand it?"

"Poor Europe is in a state of neuras-thenia," the Dictator said. "It was not Germany which lost the last War; it was Europe. The United States gained, Japan gained, Russia gained, but Europe lost its recuperative power, the vital force."

Refusing to agree that there is a "war" in Ethiopia, onetime Editor Mussolini called what Italians are doing an "expedition."

"A good many English peace-lovers would like to get rid of you," remarked Mrs. McCormick, and II Duce laughed in agreement. "Perhaps they won't find that so easy," he answered. "J'y suis. J'y reste --44,000,000 multiplied by one."

In their hour's chat, the Dictator spoke of the effect produced on Ethiopians when invading Italians set up at Aduwa the first cinema projector the town had ever seen, and invited the whole town to see the show. "I am not sure that was a work of Civilization," sardonically remarked Mussolini. "The natives fled to the hills as if from the Devil. Perhaps they were right."

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