THE ROAD TO RUIN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 245, 27 July 1943, Page 3

THE ROAD TO RUIN.

BRITISH WARNING RECALLED. ' LONDON, July 25. In December, 1940, Mr Churchill broadcast a message to the Italian people. He recalled British and Italian comradeship in the list war and said that both countries had worked well together. In spite of these friendly relations, however, the two countries, were now at war, and Italian aviators had dropped bombs on London. Mi Churchill warned the Italians that their empire would be torn to shreds and tatters. Italy had been brought into the war by one man —Mussolini. After 18 years of unbridled power he had plunged Italy into a deadly struggle against the British Empire and had deprived his country of the sympathy of the United States. He had led his country along the road to ruin.

Mr Churchill sent a special message to Mussolini, asking him to save the Italian people from unnecessary bloodshed It was in no spirit of weakness or fear on his part that he made the request and whatever happened’ on the Continent of Europe, England would go on till the end. A few days later, Mussolini replied in a manner that Mi Churchill described as “dusty.” Mussolini’s resignation comes nine days after Mr Roosevelt and Mi Churchill sent a message to the Italian people urging them to throw Mussolini out. Italy’s position, they saul, was the direct outcome of one man whose shameful Fascist regime had plunged her into a war which Mussolini had thought Hitler had already won. Now the Italian people were faced with the overwhelming power of the United Nations and they were asked to bring the struggle to an end in order to avoid unnecessary bloodshed and destruction.