Living Room for the U. S.

Keep traveling round and round the world and write a book a year about how everything looks when seen through Fascist spectacles: such is the formula of Mario Appelius, who when in Rome writes for Founder Benito Mussolini's Popolo d'ltalia. Last week Appelius wrote an editorial broadly hinting that the Axis would be glad to take the U. S. into partnership and share the spoils of World War II.

Mario Appelius "offered" Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Bermuda to the U. S. as part of its living space in a Fascist "new world order," and all he asked as quid pro quo was that the U. S. should recognize Europe and Asia as the Lebensraum of Germany, Italy and Japan. (La Stampa of Turin, still more generous, offered the U. S. South and Central America as "living space.")

As further inducement, Mario Appelius observed that if the U. S. goes into World War II on the side of Great Britain it will "commit suicide," that the U. S. people can be "saved" only if Great Britain is knocked out too quickly for the U. S. to get into trouble with the Axis. His hopeful conclusion: "The speed of the Axis will probably save the American people from the great tragedy to which plutocracy has condemned it."

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