13 FEBRUARY 1926, page 1

It Is Being Said In General Extenuation Of Signor...

speech that he always has to be thinking how he can retain popularity with his Fascist audience, and that his speech must be read in that context—not as a serious declaration on......

News Of The Week

T HE event of the week—a disagreeable one—has been Signor Mussolini's speech in the best manner of Mr. Jefferson Brick. It was in the Chamber of Deputies last Saturday that......

Herr Held Was, Of Course, Greatly To Blame, But Lie

was speaking with little more than the authority of a dis- gruntled politician who has seen the particular brand of nationalism which Bavaria cultivates wither under the......

• Signor Mussolini Went On To Refer . To The Speech

of Herr Held, the Bavarian Prime Minister, which, we agree, was most unfortunate: .. Herr Held said . of "the spirit of Locarno "that like all hypocritical things it would plvve......

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