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ITALIANS’ DISILLUSIONMENT [British Official Wireless] RUGBY, Bth December. In a survey of Italy’s general strategic position following Greece’s splendid resistance and thrust, with the concomitant weakening of the enemy morale, the Sunday newspaper “Observer” takes the opportunity to underline the undoubted luke-warmness for the war of the majority of the Italian people. “They we had no quarrel with them,” it states. “The insane struggle to overthrow the British Empire was forced on them and an iron answer on us. The large majority had no heart in the war. Their good instinct told them it could only make them either the victims of a Nazi defeat or the jackals of a Nazi success. “When it is made plain to them that their continuance in the war means certain misery and ruin they will revolt against it and leave it. Nothing that Fascism can do will prevent it if we know how to handle our side of the business.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 December 1940, Page 5
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