NO LONGER ENEMIES
600,000 U.S. ITALIANS.
P.A Cable.
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.
Six hundred thousand Italians living in the United States and 6,000,000 Americans of Italian parentage found Mr Biddle's speech the biggest story of years, says the New York' Times, commenting on the Federal Attomey- General 's announcement that from Monday next Italian aliens would no longer be classed as enemy aliens. The newspaper says that the Government's decision was made on statistical, not sentimental grounds, as 99.8 per eent. of Italian immigrants are behind the U.S. war effort. Mr Biddle's action was not merely justice it was grand strategy, worth quite a number of divisions of troops, cruisers and plane-carriers. "It tells the people of Italy, over the heads of their Government, that we do not consider them our enemies," The paper declares. "The news will not be broadcast in Italy, but it will reach Italy and the acceptance of 600,000 legal enemies as friends and fellow-workers is a deed calculated to weaken the Italian people's will to flght."
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 244, 16 October 1942, Page 2
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