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Benito ("Peace is a Catastrophe") Mussolini proceeded to explain to his Blackshirts that Italy had been at war since 1922-"from the day when we lifted the flag of our revolution . . . against the Masonic, democratic, capitalistic world." On the other side of the Brenner, in Munich's Hofbräuhaus, Adolf went him two years better, told his Brownshirts that they had been fighting the Jews and the bankers for exactly 21 years, since the Party held its first meeting. Neither bothered to mention the fact that during most of these two decades Hitler thought Mussolini was a windbag...
...recognized harmonious cadences between Axis plans and his own ambitions. He was present in Munich when the mold for Europe's "New Order" was laid, and when, as a consequence thereof, Czecho-Slovakia was dismembered, he snatched morsels for Hungary. In 1939, he led Hungary out of the League of Nations and joined the New Order triumvirate as the first outside power. "I have formal assurance," he declared, "that Germany does not intend to attack either Rumania or anyone else." A few months later he was in Rome pleading with Mussolini to dissuade Hitler from occupying Hungary. War brought...
Last week Britons revived an old fear: gas. After Munich and at the war's beginning, Britain was very much on guard against gas. Over 45,000,000 gas masks were distributed, but gradually the fear blew away, and now only about one in five carries a mask, usually only when the war of nerves is fiercest. Last week the Government considered requiring gas masks as an admission "ticket" for bomb shelters; planned practice gas alarms to remind the people of this threat; put pressure on producers of gas-fighting equipment to speed...
...need not overemphasize imperfections in the peace of Versailles. We need not harp on failure of the democracies to deal with problems of world reconstruction. We should remember that the peace of 1919 was far less unjust than the kind of 'pacification' which began even before Munich, and which is being carried on under the new order of tyranny that seeks to spread over every continent today...
...Richard Strauss, another sail-trimmer, is active at 76. Although he lives near Munich, he lately visited Berlin, conducted performances of his operas Ariadne and Arabella. Last spring he wrote a festival piece for Axis-partner Japan-an apotheosis of the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire...