21 APRIL 1939, Page 6

The Italian Press has on the whole exceeded the German

in the petulant anger of its comments on President Roose- velt's message, and the lowest depths of foulness were sounded by the newspaper Tevere on Tuesday, when it was thought fit to make the paralysis from which the President suffers the basis for a series of derisive metaphors. Nothing, of course, is a bett,r testimony to the impression the message has made than the parolysms of wrath with which the controlled Press of Germany and Italy has hailed it. * *