The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1934, Page 6

tne nw SS D357 rot Page Six —— Daily « }} Worker MMUMIST INTERMATIONALD @QWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (5 ° “America’s Oniy Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EX( r SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 56 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥ ALgonquin 4-795 4 “i nay peer . Subscription Rates : Provocations Against May 7 nity “There will be no clash and no bloodshed — Thou- and that may disappoint the Communists. sands of rank and file labor unionists will echo the disappointment of the trade union leader who exclaimed at a May Day Committee meeting: ‘The Communists are looking for another Madison Square Garden mecting at Union Square. Let ‘em come and try it. It’s one thing to yell like wild beasts and throw chairs from upper balconies. It’s another thing {o try to break up a dem- onstration of union men ready for it.” | The Comm. & Will be “disappointed” if there is no “blooshed”—the C are people who stir up “violence and bloo . the Commu- nists are eager for violence and bloodshed . Thus speaks the Socialist New Leader. Is not this the language of the police? Is not this the language of the vicicus capitalist press when they seek to justify the gangster attacks of vigil- antes and American Legion mobs? | | | Can any class conscious worker fail to see in this kind of language the very same kind of mob incitement to violence that is the stock-in-trade of professional “red baiters”? How different is this kind of “come-on-and- fight,-you-Reds,” talk from the language of the budding American Fascists in the vigilante—Amer- ican Legion gangs who attack meetings and strikes of the working class? There is essentially no dif- ference at all. 'T IS a historic fact that every worker knows from his own experience that the ruling class always justifies its own savage brutality against the work- ing class by precisely such talk as this about radical violence.” It was with just such talk that American cap- italism attempted to sweeten the foul murder of the laymarket marty whose martyrdom gave birth to this very May Day that we now celebrate! It was with such talk of “radical bloodshed” that the ruling class masters framed Tom Mooney, Sacco and Vanzetti. That is how they used to spit at Eugene Victor Debs when he was fighting Amer- ican capitalism. Today, that is how Fascism everywhere justifies its terrorism against the revolutionary movement - with hysterical lies about “radical violence and bloodshed.” | It is therefore a sinister fact that this kind of vicious provocation in the New Leader is only helping to pave the way for the unleashing of Fascist savagery against the whole labor movement. . * HE Socialist leaders talk of “unity.” But there is unity and uni There is the Socialist Party unity with militarist Von Hindenburg in Germany, with the Fascist Dollfuss in Austria. Similarly, there is the Socialist Party unity with the Wall Street Roosevelt government in support of the strike-breaking N. R. A. codes, the strike- breaking Wagner Bill, unity with the Wall Street tool, LaGuardia, and the professional labor faker, Matthew Woll. This unity with the capitalist class or its agents, the Communist workers reject with all the power of their class hatred. The Communist call for unity is for unity of the workers AGAINST capitalism and its agents, whether these agents are the open fascists like Hindenburg or Dollfuss or the Wall Street agents wrapped up in the rags of Rooseveltian “liberal- ism.” That is the only unity that has any value or meaning for the toiling masses. The rest is treachery disguided as “unity.” It is the Communists alone who strive for the working class unity against capitalism and all its agents, “liberal,” “democratic,” or otherwise 1 vem come and tr writes the New Leader in the accents of best Fascist-vigila: gangsters seeking to provoke a clash wivh a workers Our answer to this cold blooded to renew our f and sincere o} c solidarity wi 1 workers, of whatever pa or affilia To the Sccialist ¥ “Comrades, fellow workers! We do not yet agree on the best way to fight for Socialism. We still have our differences. But we are class brothers. The lash of capitalist exploitation falls with impartial brutality upon our backs. The same working class blood flows in our veins. “We must thrash out our differences in com- radely discussion, in ovr shops, in our organiza- tions. Above all, we must present ene united working class front to our commen class enemy. No incitement, no slanders, no differences must keep us apart on our great day of international solidari . Under the banner of class struggle let us raise our great battle cry of our revolutionary teachers, Marx, Engels and Lenin: Workers of the world, unite! Into Union Square for the mightiest working class demonstration in history! For working class solidariyt under the banners of class struggle! For the smashing of Fascism, for the release of Thael- mann, Torgler, and all anti-Fascist fighters! For unrelenting struggle against the yoke of Wall Street orkers we say imperialism, against the yoke of the Roosevelt “New Deal”! Socialist workers! Here is our hand! Let us clasp in the unbreakable bond of class unity! Into Union Square on May 1! | ANew Weapon in theFight NOTHER stride forward for the Daily Worker—and thus for the working- class—will be registered with tomorrow’s issue of the “Daily.” Beginning, appropriately enough, with May First, the International Labor Day, when thousands of New York trade union- ists will be marching through New York streets for shorter hours, higher wages and for a Socialist society, the Daily Worker will issue a special New York Trade Union Supplement, the first of the regular weekly trade union supplements. This supplement will, in a great measure, an- swer the questions before the hundreds of thousands of trade unionists in New York City, including those in the American Federation of Labor unions and independent unions, as well as those in the revolutionary trade unions. The struggle for unemployment insurance — which today means first of all a struggle for the passage of H. R. 7598, the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill now before the House Committee on Labor—will be reflected in these pages. The strug- gle against the racketeering American Federation of Labor leadership and their pals, the Socialist Party burocrats of the United Hebrew Trades, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, will receive detailed guidance in the pages of the supplement, a detailed guidance not possible in the limits of the reguler six pages of our paper. The organization of the Negro workers into the trade uions, the organization of the unorgan- ized workers in transportation and public utilities, the fight against company unionism, will be featured in the N. Y. Trade Union Supplement. Besides the above, the Trade Union Supplement will carry material on inner-union questions, reg- ular exposes of strike-breaking and gyp agencies that prey on the body of New York labor. ‘The revolutionary trade unions must be the first to guarantee the widest distribution of this sup- plement. With a large sale of the supplement the “oppositions within the A. F. of L. unions will have a most effective ally in their struggle against the corrupt leadership. The regular sale of the Daily Worker containing the Trade Union Supplement will without a shadow of a doubt have an important effect on the struggle of the New York workers to build powerful trade uion organizations that can lead them in successful battles against the wage-cutting, hour-raising ray- ages o fthe Blue Buzzard. | Join the Communist Pay) 35 EAST 12TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. } | | Piease send me more information on the Commu- nist Party. NAME.. ADDRBEES..........0ceeeseeeres Women’s International Anti-War Group Calls on Women to Demonstrate May Day NEW YORK. — The Women's ; We demand peace, Initiative Committee for the In- so, ternational Women’s Congress | Against War and Fascism has is- sued a stirring appeal to all work- Ing class women to support the May Day demonstrations marked throughout the world as 2 day of ttruggle against war, fascism, against misery and starvation. | interview he had he adds: A new world slaughter is being) You sympathize? On April 22 the correspondent of | the N. Y. Times reported about an | person of Shanghai, that Japan will carry on war against Soviet Russia during this year. But work and) the factories for the work of the millions. Only for that reason So- viet Russia is moving forward vic- toriously in the midst of the capi- talist chaos because in Soviet Russia the workers and farmers control. There is no capitalism there, but socialism. The women and men of with a leading who declared “Among the 400,000,000| the Soviet Union want no war. They population of China there is great The manifesto follows: | sympathy with Soviet Russia.” American mothers and working Women—HEED THE WARNING! | Yomen—we ask you with whom do want nothing else but an oppor- tunity peacefully to build up their country, Against this land the new impe- Where do you) rialist war is directed. prepared by the bosses! War against the Soviet Union in| 1934—so say the Japanese militar-| Women and girls of the working! elass, white and Negro: We call on you to demonstrate by your millions on May First against the war mong-| ers and the fascists. War by Japan against the land! where socialism is being built (the | only safeguard of peace) means war against the working class of the entire world. It was the shot at Serajevo in 1914 which brought the imperialist World War to an explosion. The! result—11,000,000 men ered, 32,- 000,000 wounded. Unspeakable mis- | ery for women and children, | Today the whole world is shaken | by the terrible crisis. The explosive | material for a new world war is ted up at furious speed. want no new war. | stand? How do you live? What do you teach your son? Does your sympathy not belong} on the side of peace, of socialism? We want to help you see how) many threads the capitalists are preparing for a new world war—a war in which your husband and} your son, your brother and your | sweetheart, will bear arms against | you for your employer, for the im-| perialist robbers, We wani to help you find a way out of the misery, out of the star- | vation, out of this chaos. In no country of the world has the; wife and mother sucn protection and full liberty and equality as in the | Soviet Union. Why? Because in the Soviet Union the majority of the people conducted a war that led to freedom — the! revolutionary war that overthrew put an end to the exploit- ers, and opened up the granaries for the hungry, and the doors of American mothers: If you do not | wish your sons to be torn to pieces | by grenades— Working women: If you do not wish that you and your family | should be killed by poison gas— Working women and women of all professions: If you wish to struggle against boss-made war then you must join the broad united front of | the fighters against war and fascism. Let May First be the day for mo- ing women. American mothers: | Demonstate on May First by the millions in the struggle Against War and Fascism | Fer Defense of the Soviet Union |For bread, work, and socialism | For Peace. ‘Women’s Initiative Committee for the International Women’s Congress Against War jand Fascism, Paris, July 28 to women, girls, and bilizing millions of American work-! e iets WORKER, N tW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1934 Japan Cops, W hiteguards Plan May 1 Provocations To Make May | Demand “Free 'Thaelmann!” | Committees German, | Cor Visit Cuban ates to NEW YORK.—On May Day |a committee of ten will leave the parade at the Battery for the German Consulate to de- mand from the bloody Hitler government the immediate } and unconditional release of E Thaelmann and all anti-fascist | prisoners. The committee will consist. of Ella | Reeve Bloor of the Communst Party, | Pauline Rogers of the N. Y. Com- mittee to Aid the Victims of Ger- man Fascism, Otto Durick of the Anti-Fascist Action, A. Wagenknecht of the Nat'l. Committee to Aid the | Victims of German Fascism, Edward |Dahlberg of the Nat'l. Committec for Defense of Political Prisoners, | Dave Lee of the American on s from the i arine Ww etal Workers, Needle Industrial Union, Wor rvicemen's League. | The report of the delegation will | be given at Union Sq. Visit Cuban Consulate NEW YORK. — A del | Workers, headed by the Anti. alist League, will v Consulate on May; | the repeal of the “no: ; and immediate and unconditional; release of all class war prisoners. | The delegation will go into the Con-| sulate while the downtown sect: of the United Front May Day n onstration is assembled in front of) the Consulate at Whitehall St, an Battery Pl. mperi- it the Cuban 1st to demand Se tae Anti-Fascist Parade Monday W YORK.-Sect'on 6 and 8 cf | the Communist Pariy here will h erman working cl | neighborhood in Williamsburgh a | Brownsville. The parade will start |at Woodbine and Myrtle Ave., wind ling through the German workin2 | class district, will end at Knicker- bocker and Myrtle Ave. In cars jand trucks it will then proceed! through the working class sections | of Williamsburgh, ending at Grand} St. Extension with a fine 10 o'clock, All mass organizations are urged to bring their banners| and slogans. Call N. Y. Youth Conference on War and Fascism Many Sign Bid to City Meeting for May 13 | NEW YORK—A call for a New| |York Youth Conference Against War and Fascism has just been issued by the Youth Section, Am: jican League Against War and Fas- jcism for May 13 at 2 p. m. Amon; there Dr. Harry F. Ward, Methodi Federation for Social Service and National Chairman of the American League, Roy Hudson, Marine Workers Industrial Union, Mrs, James Forsyth, National Stud- ent Commitee, Young Women's Christian Association, Elizabeth De- Maris, director, Girls Work, Church |the growth of youth secti o the signers of this call LOOK OUT BELOW! Young Miners in ‘[inois' 200 Greet Mavray | : Picked for Anti- WearMeet In Portland, Me. (Daity Worker Midwest Bureau) 'HICAGO, Ill, April 27.—Two delegates to the Illinois State Youth Conference Against War and Fas- ‘lly at/ cism were elected by Local 1 of the! boro, Pena, Gille: 7s of America in! is the largest local! | Progressive Mini Benld, Il. Thi of the union, and the delegates were chosen only after the most of All Nations, Rose L. Rosenberg, vice-prescident, National Avukah, a zionist youth organization, James | Wexler, Editor of Columbia Spec-| tator, Emanuel Sonnenreich, Ex- ecutive Director, Youth Division, American Jewish Congress, Philip Schiff, Acting Head Worker, Madi- son House and Dr. Reuben S. Young cf the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. The past month has witnessed number of cities and st: New York Conference will have as its immediate tasks the setting up of a permanent broad committee in the city as well as to prepare a mighty demonstration against war y 30th, National Youth Day. erous organizations whose officers have not affixed their sig- natures to the call have agreed to id delegates to the conference wich will be held in the large hall at Irving Plaza, All inquiries: on the conference should be directed to James Lerner, 112 E, 19th St. New York City. By PAUL GREEN (From the general staff to the lowest scum of the Czarist white guardists, French finance capital is recruiting its fascist forces. The following is the first of two articles dealing with the French fascist groups and their connec- tions and aims.) FRA gaa What are the fascist forces in France? First in line come the “Camelots du Roi,” headed by the trio of hooligans, Pujo, Leon Daudet and Maurras. They num- ber in Paris about 1,200. This num- ber is well organized, well discip- lined and equipped with arms as their own spokesman so clearly in- dicated in the Senate investigating committee. This group is known to the outside world as the Royalist Group, supported by finance capi- talists. Next comes the “Croix de Feu,” a fascist organization headed by Colonel de la Rocque. They, to- gether with the Royalists, took part. in the Feb, 6 riots. They number in Paris about 8,000. They’ too, are well armed and drilled by their military attaches. They are in close association with the Army General Staff, or rather the General Staff |is associated with them. Marechal Weygand is honorary president. And not less important are the “Jeunesses Patriotes,” under the ‘leadership of Lieutenant-Colonel Faye. This fascist organization seems to work hand-in-hand with the army. At one of their ban- quets, we find Marechal Lyautey, the slaughterer of the Morocco working class. They number 2,000 in Paris. | The Fascist Perfumer Then comes the “Solidarite Francaise,” another fascist organ- ization founded by the well-known fascist - perfumer, the capitalist Coty. The head of this clique is Jean Renaud, retired army officer. They number about 1,500 in Paris.) The “Garde Republicaine” is an- other fescist military force num- | ease Reactionary Groups Driving Towards one Goal—Against the Rising Revolutionary Struggles of the French Workingclass | the heated discussion. Young miners have been elected to this conference thus iar aie Springfield, Virden, Nakomis, , and a sone rom the P. M. A. Women’s; ary at Taylor Springs: { girl Auxil Washington Anti-War Meet | OLYPIA, Wash.—A branch of the League Against War and Fas-| cism, organized here at a mass | meeting of 250 people, holds regular/| meetings here at the K. P, Hall) jevery two weeks. At the mass meeting the speakers were well re- ceived, and representatives from many organizations were present. Merwin Cole, of the University of Weshington, Adain, Olson and Al- lison of Olypia were the speakers. vane no HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Fifteen | organizations were represented at first Anti-War Conference called by the Hamtramck Commit- tee Against War and Fascism, April 8, where a committee of ac- tion was elected to call a broad conference involving the many| Negro organizations in this city. The committee of action in its last meeting has issued a call for the next Anti-War Confercnce to be} held at Yemans Hall, 3014 Yemans) St. on Sunday, May 6 at 2 p.m, | fires Mn dN aie | STUDENTS STRIKE IN BEHALF | OF TEACHERS KARNS CITY, Pa. (F.P.)—Fail- ure of the school board in Karns | 23 Trish Costiiasirinat Speaks In Philadelphia On | May 1 BOSTON, April 29—Over 200) Trish people attended an enthusi- | astic meeting at which Sean Mur- | tay, leader of the Communist Party of Ireland, spoke in Portland, Me.,/ on Wednesday night. ao The meeting was held under the auspices of the Irish Work- ers Club of that | city. Edward) Lee, militant Trish worker was chairman. The encouraging re- sponse to the Sean Murray meeting has stimulated plans for future mass meetings by the club, Comrade Murray who is touring the country is scheduled to speak in the following cities: Philadelphia, April 29-30-May 1; Baltimore, Mav; 2-3; Pittsburgh, May 4-8; Cleveland, | | May 10-12; Detroit, May 13-16; Chi- | cago, May 17-20; St. Louis, May 22- Sean Murray City, Pa. to rehire four teachers; caused 170 high school students to strike and parade in protest. F rench Fi inance ce Capital Gathers Its F ascist Hordes bering about 3,000. They are or- ganized in military fashion, that is to say, they have regular officers and the troops are divided into battalions and respectively sub- divided into companies and esca- drons of cavalry. Still another military fascist or- ganization is the “Garde Mobile de Paris,” originally formed at the in- stigation of Renaudel (then mem- ber of the Socialist Party), for the purpose of “not shooting down workers” during their struggle against capitalist exploitation, that is to say, during strikes. But this proposition of the renegade Renau- del turned out to be a means of further increasing military fascist rule in order to “repress workers’ movements.” This organization has about 4,000 members. Next comes the “Franciste” or- ganization, numbering about 800. The last organization is the fa- mous Chiappe Municipal Police of Paris, which numbers about 14,000. Chiappe, who until recently was the Paris Prefet de Police, which means in our language the Police Com- missioner, is well known for his brutality during the last ten years. It is he and his band who are re- sponsible for the continuous per- secution, for the brutal treatment of the workers of Paris, for the sup- pression of the working class move- ments, for pillaging and raiding workers’ clubs, while his brother robbers and swindlers would be left unmolested. The numbers recorded so far in-| clude only the fascist military forces of Paris. We do not know the exact amount of their ramifications. Morris Gilbert states in the New York World-Telegram of April 23 that there are approximately 100,000 | well-drilled men in Paris. Since the February 6 riots several newspapers, both dailies and week- lies, decided to undertake an inves- tigation in the form of in- terviews. One of these publications, called “1934,” under the direction of a Mr. Lafue, interviewed several leaders of the above mentioned fas- cist organizations. Two of these in- terviews, which we shall quote in part, will give us a clear-cut picture of the aims and methods of these fascist leagues. Let Mr. Ybarnaray seak for himself: “....The present govern- ment could be replaced by a system of corporate representation. ...This corporate state may be inspired by the Italian corporate state, but it will be more supple, French, so to say.” Then the interviewer wishes to know whether there is a possi- bility of civil war in France. The gentleman of the “Jeunesses Patriotes” hypocritically replies: “Of course, I do not want it, but the revolutionaries (presumably mean- ing the Communist and Socialist workers), the destroyers of society, may start the ball rolling—espe- cially, should there be a united front between Socialists and Com- munists, then the peril is unavoid- able. Of course, we'll let the police and the State troops take care of it Should they fail, we'll have nothing to fear for the “Jeunesses Patriotes,” the Croix de Feu, the Action Francaise Camelots du Roi, etc., troops are well disciplined.” The next gentleman interviewed is the leader of the combatants who marched together with the Royalists at the February 6 riots. His name is Jean Goy. His opinion lon parliamentary form of govern- ment coincides with that of the | previous speaker, but he states that the February 6 event brought to way of returning to the old regime.” ‘The proof of the matter lies in the fact that Doumergue is ruling with- out the government, that in order to vote the budget he (Doumergue) imposed an abnormal procedure, then he obtained full dictatorial powers and finally, sent the Cham- ber home for a vacation. After this no return is possible. It is this road that we helped establish. Should any revolutionary activities manifest themselves, we won't stand by passively.” And so the government serves these fascists, the fascists serve the Steel Trust, the bankers, the in- dustrialists, and so the merry-go- round. Mr. Gilbert (N. E. A. Serv. ice writer) writes in the World- Telegram of April 23, under the heading “Paris Fears Revolt,” that “drilling of the right wing group goes on;” that “if the royalist Cam- elots du Roi, the Croix de Feu and Birscards, the Jeunesses Patriotes, the Francistes, the Solidarite Fran- caise, and the other fascist-tending bodies should unite, the combined forces of drilled men of military age which could be thrown into Paris streets is today estimated at not less than 100,000.” At one point in this article the writer seems rather naive. In Leger’ the possibility of civil war, asks himself, “Are these troops paras police loyal?” He means by the troops the Garde Republicaine, the Garde Mobile and the muni- cipal police. Now, Mr. Gilbert, loyal to whom? To the government? For that is what you imply. Is it not a fact that the government is part and parcel of the various fascist or- ganizations? Is it not a fact, Mr. Gilbert, as you will know if you read the Paris newspapers, that the gov- ernment including the army gen- eral staff is helping them to arm? (Tomorrow's concluding article will deal with the relations of French fascism to the Hitler forces, and the working-class an end the French parliamentary system. He says that “there is no strugzie to destroy these forces of reaction) Aaa a For Manchukuo| | Use Emblem of USSB To Stir Up Exeuse For Attacks MOSCOW, Apr April 29 (By Wireless).—On the advent of May Day, reports from Kha- barovsky and Harbin stat that whiteguardist organiza] tions, assisted by Japanese police] are committing outrageous provo- cations. Whiteguards prepared May First proclamations bearing the em- blem of the USSR, calling for anti-Japanese demonstrations. In order to canceal the origin of these forgeries and divert suspicion from the police and throw a shadow upon the local newspaper, “Eastern News.” ich gives more or less objective information concerning the Soviet Union, the provocateurs se- lected pe similar to that of “East- They intended to distribute these forgeries on the eve of May First with the view of giving a fresh basis for attacks on the cultural in- stitutions of the Chinese Eastern Railwa; 4 This whiteguardist police plot is a repetition of provocations and forgeries practiced in past years in connectio with May First celebra- tions, USSR Turns Dows . Terms of Lo! Offer from Swe¢ Social-Democratic Si_ Greatly Disturhbec By Surprise Act : Special to the Daily Worker MOSCOW, April 29 (By Wireless) | Yesterday, the Soviet Ambassador to Swede: Alexandra Kolontai ; handed over to the Swedish foreigr | minister, Sandler, a note concern- ing the refusal by the Central Ex- ecutive Committee of the U. S. S R., to ratify the agreement regard- ing the loan offered to thé Soviet | Union by Sweden. As is well known. the agreement was signed by the Swedish govern- ment in Stockholm on March 16th The Soviet note points out that ratification is declined by the Cen- tral Executive Committee owi ing te certain conditions in the agreement which are disadvantageous to the Soviet Union. The report was re- ceived quite unexpectedly in Stock- holm creating a furor in the Riks- dag (parliament.) The press was thrown into fub sonfusion. The government organ, “Socialdemocraten,” writes: | “Throughout the passionate discus- sions arising around the Soviet loan no one expected Moscow would de- cline this loan agreement. With Moscow’s refusal of the loan all possibilities of satisfying the most important interests of Sweden dis-| appear. The splendid opportunity of rendering considerable assistance to our industry and agriculture dis- appears, likewise. Circles misled by | incitements and false assertions will later understand pede we have lost.” Farmer’s Wife Is = onGroun for World Anti-Fascist Meet NEW YORK.—‘T shall be glad to serve in any way that I can,” writes Mrs. C. I. (Josie) Hallquist of Jules- berg, Colorado, member of the State Executive Board of the Holiday As- sociation of Nebraska (Madison County Plan) to the American Sec- tion of the International Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism. “I was just twenty-one when the United States entered the last war. I remember the misery of the World War very well indeed. Naturally 1 will do everything in my power to prevent another. If we must have another war we will indeed make it a war to end war.” “I will take this matter of the Congress at Paris up with the sev- eral organizations with which I am affiliated at an early date.” Mrs. Hallquist has been elected | to the National Executive Commit- tee of the American section of the International Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism that will take place in Paris, July 28, 29, 30, 1934, Mrs. Hallquist’s work in organiz- ing the farm women in her neigh- borhood for the struggle to keer: their families on the land the} tilled and the home they slaved keep together is a fine promise the work that she ple herself to do in arousing all the farm wo- men for the struggle against war and fascism in the United Stctes. She participated actively in thr Second Farmers’ National Conven tion at Chicago last November. Italian King Calls for Greater Armaments — ROME, April 29.—Justifying the | huge war preparations of Ii fascism, King Victor opening the 29th session of the rump Italian parliament declared that “the best guarantee of peace lies in the efficiency of our armed forces. It will be the duty of the Italian government to increase and perfeet this efficiency.” The king’s speech opening the way to even more rabid war prep- arations was enthusiastically ap- plauded by the fascist “deputies,” 4