Italian Students Leave the C.I.E.

(Press Bureau Special Service.)

Extracts from an article in "Roma Fascista." showing how deeply the ideological political differences affect international collaboration of students:—

C.I.E. is a non-political organisation which unites the national unions of students for academic, athletic and tourist purposes.

We Fascist students have left the C.I.E. because the latter has become imbued with the form and mentality of the most sordid parliamentarism—This sort is the enemy of all youthful forces because it is an expression of mental decadence and it becomes crystalised in the most empty abstractions; it and the ideals of Fascism are at opposite poles and cannot live together.

For a youth that lives in a climate of continual revolution, that casts its ideals into the future, that conquers its realistic heights in militant service, in discipline and in war, there cannot be any further contact with young men for whom youth has no ethical duty to fulfil and who spend their time in idle chatter and in empty amusement.

Our youthful education has a function and a mission in and for the Revolution that corresponds to a concrete and practical programme. The same must come about in the international field; the mission or youth must be to unite forces, with clear and firmly established ideas on common ideals. Something far different, from Congresses and speeches is needed to-day, because youth has to gather and maintain the glories of the past, and, above all, has to create the future of the world!

Therefore the necessity arises for all students to lift themselves above every pre-instituted tie and bondage of former theories and past ways of living, and the imperative need for them to find the courage of assuming their own individual responsibilities—to do what the C.I.E. cannot or will not do, because of its congenial debility and incapacity to evolve towards now forms of spiritual life.

Our youth, freer than from all ties, can now call to its side the youth of all nations towards the realisation of new forms of activity and of life.

It is a young team that Don Bradman is leading to such hollow victories in England. He himself is 29 and Stan McCabe 27. The ages of the others are: O'Reilly, [unclear: Chipperfield] and McCormick 32, Fingleton 29, Barnett 29, Ward and Walker 28, Fleetwood-Smith and Waite 27, Brown 25, White 24, Badcock 23, with Barnes and Hassett, each 21, the youngest.