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H WINNER Staff Correspondent Associated I Press nO ROME IE July 23 Premier Premier Musso- Musso linin watching with keen interest the difficulties besetting Europe I believes believe that no international crisis brewing war exists eXIsts but t that at a agra gra grave grae e Internal and economic struggle struggle gle wracking th the nations separately separate separate- ly is In progress lie He- has firm t filth faIth h that Europe Europe will emerge into a a. per period perl l of ot st stability stability sta sta- but that sac sacrifices 1 i e. e will be necessary j ACUTE CRISIS Tell the people of he said that Europe Europa is tr traversing a period perlo of acute most acute crisis but that I have firm faith that she will overcome her difficulties Aft Aft- I am convinced that she will have a period of f stabilization and peace Make It clear dear however that the gra grave ve crisis of ot which 1 speak is not not international and and that It k has nothIng nothing noth noth- ing to do wit with l the relations be between b b. b tween nations an and hence in no no sense brings up the specter of war It is an Internal crisis that is wracking the various nations sep sepp- sepp not r their political lives bl bu their economic and an social It is preeminently social I am tn confident that the nations will solve it it ht but tn to H do 10 10 so en n Mio tho the tile n peoples people s nf of or I I I I solve it it ht but tn to H do 10 10 so en n Mio tho the tile n peoples people s nf of or Europe must use all their energy and must be prepared to make every sacrifice in the cause of peace and stability FRIENDLY TALK TALK Premier Mussolini received the correspondent correspond nt in his lofty celled in l tl ace He e firt d t.- t. ht rI l r tenor of may be illustrated by the fact that the premier constantly shifted from I Italian to lo Fren French h. h German or or English English En En- glish gush all of which he spoke with marked fluency When he began to speak of the present European situation however however however how how- ever a transformation came lIe He strained forward In his high backed chair behind a massive table his eyes blazing with fervor and his right hand punctuating with sharp gestures his short incisive sen sen- Asked whether he considered fas- fas a pioneer political movement which might be copied by other nations as a solution of ot their difficulties dif dif- dif dif- he gave an eloquent outline out out- line of the philosophy of the movement move move- ment which he lie is leading Italy he said is creating a new type of state Among striking sentences Continued on page 6 S. INTERNAL STRUGGLE WRACKS NATIO NATIONS S SAYS MUSS MUSSOLINI OLIN I tCo- tCo Co 0 J led from la 6 1 11 in his exposition were the following follow follow- followIng ing FINE PHRASE Liberty or death was a fine nn I phrase but operation co-operation or Poverty Poverty poverty Pov pov- erty Is more accurate now flow Fascism replaces Individual soy sov sovereignty by state sovereignty the sovereignty the nation for th the individual Even the most ardent defenders of the liberal democratic movement cannot bo be so blind as not to see its decay Fascism he thinks has given an example to the world word by solving two of the major governmental pro problems lems of the modern w world world- namely the restoration of the authority au au- au authority authority of ot the sta state te and nod the elimination elimination nation of internal social struggles s notably the class war MODERN STATE 1 i Precisely because Italy Is the last cf the great powers to arrive at maturity he said she is the first to build a truly modern modem state As Asno Asno Asno no nation escaped the effects eUE of the French Frencl revolution none can canfall canfall fall fail to be influenced by our re re- re awakening Liberalism as a theory of or democracy democracy racy and a method of government was based upon certain more or less transitory social psychological and economic conditions which ha have ve changed or disappeared leaving no Justification for the Immortal principles principles prin prin- of the French revolution Fascism on the tho other hand liand Is hewing close to the line of the Inexorable in inexorable inexorable in- in movement mo of history and andIs andIs andis Is building for the future as well as the present Even the most ardent defenders of the liberal-democratic liberal movement cannot be so blind as not notto notto notto to see its decay Italy alone among the great nations nations na na- na- na of Europe Is not torn by wasteful and dangerous political crises or ruinous strikes and lock lock- outs While other nations are trying trying trying try try- ing to struggle along with a a. type of organizations obviously Unfitted unfitted unfitted un un- fitted to present conditions mend conditions mend mending ing and patching as they go we go we weare are marching unfalteringly towards do a do POSITIVE SUCCESS The rhe most significant fact is that our success Is positive We Ve are not leaving problems for tomorrow but butare butare butare are facing and solving them today We Ve have havo learned how to insure the participation of all aU types and classes of Pt citizens and how to keep leep their confidence respect and obedience which are the corner stones of a asu su successful state Our most Important Innovations have been In our conception of ot the functions of the state and in the Incorporation within the state of all aU forces of production The doctrine doctrine doc doe trine of popular sovereignty with its corollary of the Individuals Individual's su superiority superiority su- su over the state had to be superseded because it was false but more Importantly because It was was an anachronism In a world like ours of close social and economic Independence In which h the virtually is outside of ot th the gr group group up Liberty or death was a fine rIne phrase but oper co-oper operation co-operation tion or poverty is more a accurate now ORGANIC ENTITY Under the old system system individuals individuals were able to render rendel the state Impotent by refusal to co Having postulated the inherent right to liberty of the individual the state no longer had the authorIty authority authority author author- ity necessary for control Fascism i rejects the idea that the nation Is Isan Isan isan an accidental and temporary groupIng grouping grouping group- group Ing of individuals and affIrms that tt It is a living organic entity continued continued continued con con- from generation to generation generation generation genera genera- tion with a tangible physical moral spiritual and cultural patri patrI- mony No single generation no group of citizens and still less no single citizen has bas the right to militate against the nation The state Is the guardian and controlling agent of the nation It cannot be at the mercy and whims of politicians fluctuating from year to year In accordance with the moOds of a afew afew afew few men who happen through the vicissitudes of universal suffrage to tobe tobe tobe be invested with authority Fascism replaces individual sovereignty sov soy b by state sovereignty the nation for the Individual By maintaining maintaining main main- taming its authority it protects the nation affording liberty as a concession concession concession con con- cession to individuals so long as they act In harmony with the in interests interests interests in- in of the state Even more Important is our destruction of class self defense Until the advent of fascism it was assumed that the organization of the economic life of the nation lay outside the province of the state It was an erroneous idea arising from the circumstance that the the present type of Industrial development grew up after the functions of the liberal democratic state had been defined REPAIR BLUNDER BLUNDER Ours Ours a a new type of state state state-Is Is the first to repair their blunder lunder We Ve have solved the problem for ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves and perhaps for the world by incorporating Into the state all an forces of production The class war warIs waris Is finished A labor strike is no nomore nomore nomore more excusable than insurrection I. I Labor and capital have equal rights and duties and their offenses are punished Labor organizations organizations-in in fact all organizations of a public character affecting the interests of the nation nation can can exist only in so far faras faras faras as they are inserted directly or In Indirectly Indirectly indirectly in- in directly into the tissue of ot the state The spectacle of permitting the constant constant con con- stant threat of ot economic civil ll con I war warIs waris waris is ruled out rUled I 0 e I |
