ITALIANS AGAINST WAR.
AMERICAN REPORTS. Italians in Rome are eating tainted meat and are threatened wit!) a food shortage, stated Rev. Henri Bernard, of St. Louis, on his arrival at Jersey City (New Jersey) on July 31 from Europe in the American liner Excalibur. “When we left Rome the meat was getting foul.” he said. “By mid-winter I believe the Italian people, if the war continues, will be feeling a shortage of food.”
Father Bernard expressed the belief that Mussolini’s popularity had “fallen down tremendously among thinking people. There is absolutely no enthusiasm for Hitler,” he added. Another passenger, Mr Francis Macmillan, of New York, said that the Italians were 70 per cent. pro-Ally and “the other 30 per cent, scared to death.”
According to another of the Excalibur’s passengers, Mr Frank Koszarek. of New Rochelle, New York, all the Gestapo agents in Poland are learning to speak English. They were ordered to do so, he said, becn.nse tiiev think it will not be long before they are in England.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 245, 13 September 1940, Page 7
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