AWAITING RESULTS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 17, 15 October 1943, Page 5

AWAITING RESULTS

Actions-Alone Will Count With Allies (Received October 14, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, October 14. ‘‘lf the news of the Italian declaration is received by many people in this country and elsewhere with something less than unqualified enthusiasm this is due neither to a lack of sympathy for the Italian people nor to a lack of determination to use every practicable means of shortening the war against Germany,’ says “The Times” in a leading article. ■‘But a question which is quite properly being asked, and which is not yet answered and cannot be answered except by the test of experience in Italy itself,

is whether (Marshal Badoglio’s declaration o£ war will in fact enable or . encourage a substantial number of Italians in the liberated regions or beyond to take up arms or participate actively by sabotage and other means in the struggle to expel the Germans from Italy. If it does, it will have amply justified itself.” Hope For Italians. The “Daily Mail,” in a leading article, says: “There are things w T e cannot and must not forget. Actions alone will count. To put it another way, Italy will be punished for her misdeeds, (but she may obtain a. remission, for good conduct.”

“lAt the moment, and on the record of the Italian fighting men to date, Italy’s declaration makes very little difference for us,” says the “(Daily Elxpress” in a leading article. “The burden on the Fifth and Eighth Armies is not lightened one jot. The difference is for Italy herself. Yesterday she was in the hopeless morass where Mussolini had left her; today there is a way out. The comradeship of the battlefield and the conference table must, however, be earned by a different outlook from that shown by the Italian defenders of Rhodes and Kos.”