ITALIAN HARVEST
DRIVE FOR INCREASE FACTOR IN WAR MUSSOLINI’S APPEAL (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Jan. 22, 1.30 p.m.) ROME, Jan. 21. The battle for Italian self-sufficiency will continue in order to assure the people bread and means, of defence, declared Signor Mussolini in a speech in connection with the national wheatgrowing competition. He described the 1939 harvest of 80,000,000 quintals as most satisfactory. The next harvest will be most important in view of the war, which was of an economic character. "A deficient harvest can be equivalent to a battle lost,” ho said. “Italian peasants, while the world is upside down, will give an example of discipline. thinking only of how to obtain a harvest of 90,000,000 quintals, which would be a victory for the whole nation."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20151, 22 January 1940, Page 8
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