The Menace of Mussolini and Horthy.

ITALY; GERMANY

The Italian leader Benito Mussolini's violent attack on Germany was unprecedented in its insolence and vulgarity in speeches of men occupying such a position as his. It has been received with enthusiastic approval by the French Nationalist press generally, although France has been just as violently attacked in Italy by the Fascist press and Italian ambitions are a much greater menace to France than any alleged German designs. Were the military situation of Germany still the same as in 1914, Mussolini would have chosen his language more carefully. The British Government is also doing its best to save the Horthy-Bethlen gang in Hungary from an international inquiry into their misdeeds. But for English opposition, France would already have broken off diplomatic relations with Hungary in order to bring the scandal of the forged French bank notes before the League of Nations.