ITALY’S DILEMMA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 271, 26 August 1943, Page 4

ITALY’S DILEMMA.

DICTATORSHIP OR ANARCHY. SPREAD OF RESENTMENT. WITHDRAWAL FROM WAR SOUGHT. (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 25. Resentment is spreading throughout Italy at the failure of the Badogllo Government to secure Italy’s withdrawal from the war. German troops are still pouring into Northern Italy, and hopes of peace are receding, say correspondents on the Swiss frontier. Peace demonstrations are continuing, particularly in the north, where fear of renewed Allied air attacks on Italy’s industrial cities is causing increasing unrest.

Proclamations by the Government are being ignored in many instances and in others are treated with contempt. Hostility toward King Victor Emanuel is also being shown in many of the large northern cities. The Milan newspaper “Corriere Della Sera” says: “All we want is to get out of this terrible mess —really out. It would be futile to curse our enemies.”

The Italian News Agency declared to-day: “The enemy may well continue to bomb Italian towns if he believes this will assist him, but lie should stop passing judgment on the Badoglio Government. The Government is doing everything in its power to save the country, which is faced with the dilemma of dictatorship or anarchy.”