A message from the Rome .correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
touches on a rather disturbing factor in inter- national relations.. There has, says .the writer, been a general belief that British opinion favoured Italy's " active " policy in Africa, and the Italian Press con- tributed to the misapprehension by editing British newspaper comments. There can have been little need to edit them. It would be quite enough to quote, for example, the Daily Mail's comprehensive assertion that " by the vast majority of people in this country Italy's progress is regarded with extreme satisfaction" ; or the Daily Ea-press's incredible endeavours, even after last week's settlement, to prove that the League of Nations had been rebuffed by Signor Mussolini. The effects of this kind of thing abroad are what they must inevitably be, till foreigners learn that these two " popular " papers, for all their ability and enterprise on the news side, count for nothing politically. That has been proved again and again, but the truth takes long to sink in. Meanwhile, considerable harm may be done, and there is no obvious remedy. • * .*
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