MUSSOLINI’S APPEAL
TROOPS TO AID NAZIS
MESSAGE TO ITALIANS
(9 am.) LONDON, Jan. 30. Signor Mussolini, addressing a meeting of generals at which Marshal Graziani was present, called on the Italians to resume the fight at the Germans’ side. , . The Rome radio quoted Mussolini as saying that the “unconditional surrender of Italy is not only a betrayal of an ally and a fraud on the Italians but a monstrous crime and an act of madness. “When we, towards the end of September, began rebuilding our armed forces, there was literally nothing left. Morale was the worst hit—worse than the lack of material. The Italian Socialist Republican Army cannot and must not be a copy of the old Royal Army. , . “We now pass from the stage of a martyr’s war to an active war. ihe British and American landings at Nettuno immensely affected the morale of the Italians. It is a burning shame that we have to look on at the defence of Rome, even though the capital s defence is entrusted' to the well-proved valour of the German soldier. Let us resume the fight at the side of our German ally, who to-day is bearing the brunt of the European conflict.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21317, 1 February 1944, Page 3
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