ELLIOTT DOUBTS PERMANENCE OF PRESENT FASCIST REGIME

The salient note of Professor W. Y. Elliott's discussion of Fascism at the Liberal Club last night was one of doubt as to the permanence of the present Fascist regime. Although he did not think that Mussolini's government would produce any lasting effects, he admitted that Fascism was a very real force in the political situation of the present. Not only a force, but, controlled by the admittedly imperialistic aspirations of Mussolini, a direct menace.

When asked what he thought the immediate aims of Italian imperialism were. Professor Elliott said, "Although I can make no more than a guess on this subject, I should say that, in the first place, the Italians are trying to dominate South American ports and commerce in much the same way that the Germans did before the war. Then I think they have their eyes fixed on Turkey, whose bones they would undoubtedly like to pick. If further trouble comes up between the nations of Western Europe and Turkey, the League will be very likely to call on Italy as its only fighting member. Although there would be French and Russian opposition to any Italian encroachments in the Near East, England would undoubtedly watch the proceedings with great satisfaction."

Speaking of the effects the Fascist influence has had in this country, Professor Elliott said that it had resulted in splitting the Italians here into two distinct groups, the Fascisti and Anti-Fascisti. While the express purpose of Fascism in the United States is to keep down the Red element among the Italians, its control has become of doubtful value.