Un-Bolshevize the Bolsheviks!

In his most important speech since he conquered Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini in Milan last week urged France and England to scrap what he considers their political shibboleths and join Italy and Germany in ultimately un-Bolshevizing Russia. II Duce postulated that "Bolshevism is only super-Capitalism of a State carried to the most ferocious extreme. . . . The time has come to put an end to it!" He postulated further: "If there is a country where concrete, real and substantial Democracy has been realized, this country is Italy of the Fascist era!"

France and Britain were invited by the Dictator to renounce: "the illusion of Disarmament"; "the illusion of Collective Security"; "the illusion of Indivisible Peace"; "the absurdity of Juridical Parity among all States"; and therefore to renounce as the avatar of all these the League of Nations "and the lies that still constitute relics of the great shipwreck of Wilsonian ideology." The entire speech was of such extreme compression and explosive candor that Il Duce could be said to have stated the quintessence of Fascism in just about 14 minutes.

Italy's Dictator, challenging England and France to show themselves Fascism's friends, described the Rome-Berlin accord negotiated fortnight ago by his son-in-law Count Ciano (TIME, Nov. 2) as "an axis around which all European States animated by a desire for Peace may collaborate on troubles. ... It is no wonder if we today raise the banner of anti-Bolshevism!" After uttering such warlike bombast, cautious Benito Mussolini always leaves open a diplomatic avenue running in the opposite direction. "Blackshirts!" he roared. "Your marching orders are: . . . Peace with all, with those near and afar! ARMED PEACE!!" As one who considers that he has "un-Wopped the Wops," Il Duce sees no reason why it should be impossible for a pro-Fascist league of European States to "un-Bolshevize the Bolsheviks."

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