Rome . We wish that we could chronicle , any advance
towards peace between the Vatican and the Italian Government. The Pope and Signor Mussolini, two very determined men, have different aims, radically different in some respects, but peace is to the interests of both. The moral and social harm done by strife between them is incalculable. Yet we fear that there may be more strife before there is peace. There was a severe, even bitter, tone in a recent speech of the Holy Father, who spoke of the dissolution of the clubs of the Azzione Catolica as persecution and as an attack on the Church. Il Duce has never taught his young followers to- seek peace and ensue it. He has allowed instructions to go to the " Fasci " throughout- Italy to allow anti-fascist sentiment to find refuge under no banner. There are plenty of people ready to give a sinister interpretation to those words. * * *
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