"WE WILL NEVER GIVE IN"
THE LOSS OF LIBYA
(Rec. noon.)
LONDON, Feb. 1
In a speech to Fascist youth "somewhere in central Italy," Mussolini said: "The Italians received the news of the occupation of Libya with manly Roman calm. There is an unshakeable conviction at the bottom of their hearts that where our dead lie we have left strong traces of our civilisation and that there we shall return. The decision in this superhuman war will go to the one who can hold out a quarter of an hour longer than the enemy. It is the last battle that brings victory.
"Our number one enemy fought only against us, and only after 32 months of the hardest battle was he able to claim success. Fifty million Italians will continue to set their eyes towards Africa. They, more than any other nation, have a sacred right to be in Africa. Together with our Axis comrades we reply to the mad, criminal, propagandist Casablanca meeting that we will never slacken as long as we have the strength to grasp a weapon. We will never give in." :
The British United Press comments that probably because of what happened in Berlin on January 30, no previous announcement was made of Mussolini's speech.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 27, 2 February 1943, Page 5
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