A BOMBASTIC SURVEY
MUSSOLINI’S SPEECH SUBSERVIENCE TO PARTNER (Rec. 10 p.m.) RUGBY. June 11. / Commenting on Mussolini’s speech delivered on the anniversary of Italy’s entry into the war, the newspapers express surprise that he should have chosen to treat the occasion as one of triumph. • •’' ■ : The Daily Telegraph, stating that "Mussolini’s claim to greatness now rests on only one quality, his colossal effrontery,” - describes .the speech as "a bombastic survey of events which ate, for the man who fostered them, a sequence of disaster.’” - Xhe Telegraph continues: ” For him to proclaim. the German achievement is only to advertise the depth by which Italy has been undone and it is throwJnig into relief her abject. subservience tb "a partner, \yhp has, how become her taskmaster, and the conversion <of’ her 'status of a proud and free nation into that of .a. dependent - province of ' Germany.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24632, 13 June 1941, Page 5
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144A BOMBASTIC SURVEY Otago Daily Times, Issue 24632, 13 June 1941, Page 5
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