Foreign News: Tell the Truth

A fortnight ago Benito, wined and dined by the Foreign Press Club at Rome, said to foreign correspondents: "I only ask you one thing—to tell the truth . . ." (TIME, April 7).

Last week the Italian correspondent of the London Daily Herald, official trade union and British Labor Party organ, was expelled from Italy on a charge of "carrying on calumnious propaganda against the Government and against the dignity and prestige of Italy."

The Herald stated that it possessed authentic information that Mussolini had declared that if two British Labor M. P.'s should go to Italy to study Fascist election methods, in...

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