ITALIAN PEOPLE.
STRONGLY PRO-BRITISH, (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, November 14. The sentiment of the mass of the Italian people-was strongly pro-British, said Mr J. L. Conlan, a well-known Auckland solicitor, who has arrived back after ,an eight months’ tour of Britain and the Continent, Canada, and America . Mr Conlan said he spoke in cafes with Italian airmen who had been wounded in tile'fighting in Spain, and they had no love for the Gei’mans, whom they considered boorish and overbearing. The Bome-Berlin axis itself, he said, arose because of the support Germany , had given Italy in the Abyssinian crisis;' Tt was artificial. Signor Mussolini had taken Albania to prevent German infiltration into the Balkans. People in Italy' were strongly in favour of the monarchy, and if a clash came between Mussolini and the King they would follow the King, who was stjvonglv in favour-of the British. In America Mr Conlan heard the opinion .in. responsible quarters that, while Americans were saying that the United States must keep out of the war, they considered that they would have to come in ultimately.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 30, 15 November 1939, Page 8
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