MUSSOLINI'S TREASON

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 244, 16 October 1942, Page 3

MUSSOLINI'S TREASON

PIJGHT OF ITALIAN PEOPLE. UNITED STATES SYMPATHY.

P.A. Cable.

NEW YORK, Oct. 13.

"The Nazi plans contemplate wholesale deaths of Italians— -indeed, virtually every Italian soldier," said the Assistant-Secretary of State, Mr Berle, to a Columbus Day rally. He added that wherever possible Hitler used Italian troops in sectors where they would be killed. Referring to Goering's statement that the Germans would be fed though other Europeans starve, MiBerle said: "Italy is included in the starvation programme. Italy 's food and resources are being seized and sent to Germany, with little coming back." Mr Berle expressed the conviction that the Italian people did not support Mussolini's terrible treason which enslaved them. "American citizens of Italian ancestry know how to condemn the Fascists who strut their quisling part in Rome and the Nazi marionettes whose strings are pulled by Hitler. American citizens of Italian descent will know how to greet the Italian people which reconquers its freedom." From November 19 Italian aliens v/ill no longer be classed as enemy aliens, "because from that time the exoneration which they have so well earned will be granted to them." This was announced by the Attor-ney-General, Mr Biddle, who said: "It does not rnean that dangerous and disloyal persons will no longer be subject to apprehension and internment. We still will not take chances. But Italian aliens will be free to participate in the war effort without the handicaps which hitherto have been hampering them. "Of the 600,000 Italians it has been found necessary to intern only 228." Mr Eiddle said he would recommend that Congress pass a Bill granting otherwise eligible aliens citizenship without the literacy test; provided that the applicants are more than 50 years of age and arrived in the United States before 1924, and have lived there continuously since. "The people of Italy are sick of Fascism, sick of Mussolini, and particularly sick of Hitler," he added. "Revolt against Italian Fascism cannot be kept down. It has already started."