DEBT TO BRITAIN
' ITALIAN INGRATITUDE. GARIBALDI’S CURSE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official -Wireless.) Received June 13, 9.45 a.m. RUGBY, June 12. The Minister of Information (Mr A. Duff Cooper), in his broadcast on Italy’s declaration of war, said Garibaldi, the heroic Italian patriot, registered the debt his country owed to Britain when he called down a curse upon any Italian Government who in future should fight against the country that saved her. This curse is contained in a letter dated April 12, 1854, and is cited in Garibaldi’s autobiography. “England is a great and powerful nation, independent of auxiliary aid, foremost in human progress, an enemy to despotism, the only safe refuge for the exile in Europe and the friend of the oppressed. But if ever England should be so circumstanced as to require the help of an ally, cursed be that Italian who would not step forward with me in her defence,” declares the letter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 166, 13 June 1940, Page 7
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158DEBT TO BRITAIN Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 166, 13 June 1940, Page 7
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