BEFORE DUCE FELL
PEOPLE'S WAR WEARINESS Rec. 9 a.m. LONDON, August 11
Signor C. M. Franzero, former London correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," who is contributing a series of articles to the "Daily Telegraph," says:
"The worse the war went the more the people of Italy seemed to become pro-Ally. What the Fascist propaganda called defeatism was a general feeling of war weariness. Men discarded their party badges almost with childish spite. Expulsions and punishments followed. The people lived in terror. Mussolini was despised, and Scorza was hated. The cry went up, 'The King must do something. It is his duty to get us' out of the war. Why doesn't he send for Badoglio?' "The psychological state of the country was such that the people wdhld have supported anyone who could rid them of Mussolini and Fascism and end the war. They expected the King to be that man, with Badoglio's help."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 37, 12 August 1943, Page 5
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