ITALY AND FASCISM [To Me Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, -
—The reply to Mr. M. G. Chadwick concerning my friend Don Sturzo's probable fate if he had remained in Italy is very simple. My friend Don Sturzo has been twice attacked by Fascist bands before coming to England where he did not certainly come as a mere voluntary exile. Mr. M. G. Chad- wick has merely to go through the files of the Tevere, the livery and the Popolo d'Italia, the three leading Fascist papers, to ford that the incitement to murder the most promi- nent of the exiles and the 'banner in which Don Sturzo is mentioned are constant confirmations that the hypothesis he protests against is far from groundless, especially if we keep in mind that the Fascist Press merely prints what the Duce bids it to print.
Does Mr. Chadwick possess any proof that Don Sturzo is considered by Fascists and by the Duce in-alight different
from the ex-Prime Minister, Signor Nitti, or Prof. Salvemini against whom cold steel has been invoked or from such victims of Fascist violence as Signor .Amendola (also an ex-Minister of the Crown) or Signor Gobetti, the promising intellectual
editor of Turin ?—I am, Sir, &c., - -
ANGELO CRESPI
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