ITALIAN FEELING
NO LOVE FOR GERMANS
STRONGLY PRO-BRITISH
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 14.
The sentiment of the mass of the Italian people was strongly proBritish, said Mr. J. L. Conlan, the well-known Auckland solicitor, who has returned after an. eight months' tour of Britain, the Continent/Canada, and the United States^
Mr. Conlan said he spoke •in cafes with Italian airmen who had been wounded fighting in Spain. They had no love for the Germans, whom they considered boorish arid overbearing. The Rome-Berlin Axis itself arose because of the support Germany had given .Italy in the Abyssinian crisis. It was artificial. Mussolini had taken Albania to prevent German, infiltration into the Balkans.
The people of Italy were strongly in favour of monarchy, and if a clash came between Mussolini and the King, they would follow the King, who strongly supported the British. .-.. In America Mr. Conlan heard the opinion in responsible quarters that while the Americans were saying that the United States must keep out of the war, they considered that they would have to come in ultimately.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 5
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178ITALIAN FEELING Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 5
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