SUPPORT FOR GERMANY
ITALIAN OPINION DIVIDED IMPRESSIONS OF A TOURIST [by telegraph—own correspondent] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday That it is impossible for Italy to enter a war in support of Germany was an opinion expressed by Dr. A. B. O'Brien, who gave an address to the Christchurch Rotary Club on his travels abroad. Dr. O'Brien said that he had travelled through France, Germany and Italy. He explained that Mussolini realised that he could not guarantee Germany support in view of the sharp division of opinion among the people of Italy. He had, therefore', pressed Hitler to achieve his end by peaceful means.
Many of the people in Italy, said Dr. O'Brien, did not favour Mussolini's alliance with the Germans. Northern Italians resented Mussolini's failure to stop Germany from perching right on their back door-step as a result of the annexation of Austria. People in that part of Italy were wondering where Hitler was going next. . / A sharp division of opinion was also manifested when Mussolini made a proclamation launching an attack on the Jews. The Pope was strongly opposed stirring up racial hatred", and, as half of the people in Italy followed him rather than Mussolini, there was a strong force against acting with Germany.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 11
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203SUPPORT FOR GERMANY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 11
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