Henderson Daily Dispatch

Mussolini Checks Attack On Britain By Italian Papers

Rome, June 10 (AP)-Premier Mussolini ordered Italian newspapers today to moderate the bitterness of their attack on Great Britain in connection with the Italo-Ethiopian dispute.

Although he did not command the press to suspend its anti-British comment entirely, the premier, acting through his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, under secretary of State for press and propaganda, enjoined publications to keep the tone of their campaigning within certain limitations.

Il Duce is said to have been startled by the extreme degree of antagonism reflected in newspaper articles and editorials of the last few days.

The torrent of denunciation of Great Britain's attitude toward the East African crisis culminated in a front page editorial in the super-Fascist daily Ottobre, in which the British were warned that if they wanted war, they might have it.

MUSSOLINI ORDER ONLY PARTLY CLAIMS BRITAIN

London, June 10 (AP)-Word that Premier Mussolini has applied the soft pedal to the anti-British campaign in the Italian press served only slightly today to allay the concern with which Great Britain viewed the Italo-Ethiopian situation.

Official circles were pleased to learn of Il Duce's action, and expressed the view that Anglo-Italian relations were at best only a side issue to the more important question of what Italy ultimately may do in East Africa.