POISONOUS OVERDOSE
"PITY THE POOR ITALIANS"
RATHER A SUBJECT FOR TEARS
"I am not one of those who> think that the Italians should be laughed at. On the contrary, I think they are a subject for tears rather than ridicule. For here are an intelligent, humane, and kindly people being butchered to make a German holiday. You may consider that it serves them right for having accepted Mussolini. But they are not so much to. blame. Italy was very sick in 1922. She then took a dose of Mussolini, because he seemed to be a necessary tonic. Unfortunately she to<!>k an overdose. An overdose of a tonic of poison."—Colin Coote in "Pity the Poor Italians. '*
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 19, 20 February 1942, Page 5
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115POISONOUS OVERDOSE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 19, 20 February 1942, Page 5
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