ANTI-BRITISH SLOGANS.
DEMONSTRATION IN ROME. Received May 10.' 9.30 a.m. ROME, May 9. After a speech by Signor Mussolini a thousand students paraded outside the Genpan Consulate shouting | “Down with England and France! Heil Hitler! Down with Democracy!” ' This is tlio first demonstration in Rome in actual support of Germany. “You must get accustomed to ray silence—only acts will break it,” declared, Signor Mussolini when 1 briefly addressing a crowd of 75,000 gathered on the fourth anniversary of the Italian Empire. Organised shouts of “Tunisia, ihlalta and the Mediterranean for us!” followed. A Washington message says White House, in a statement, flatly denies a Rome Press despatch saying that President' TtobsWelti through Mr AY. Phillips : (United States Ambassador in Rome). .: offered Signor Mussolini mediation. or r l a peace;, plan which the latter ' re- ' I iceted. ’ ; .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 137, 10 May 1940, Page 7
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136ANTI-BRITISH SLOGANS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 137, 10 May 1940, Page 7
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