MUSSOLINI’S ITALY
CONDITIONS BEFORE WAR. Writing of conditions in Italy months before that country entered the war. a Genoan woman said: "We cannot bear it any longer. There is no more soap; we have half a pound of sugar monthly: there are neither needles nor thread: no wool, no cold; and we are already forbidden to store fuel for next winter. We know that they will ration even our very bad bread. In addition to till the taxes we pay (about 20 per cent on even the lowest starvation salaries and wages), we shall shortly pay 2 per cent on everything we buy from 2.50 lire upward. If a child buys a caramel worth 5 centimes he must pay a tax of 5 centimes upon it. Thanks for your coffee: through it. in exchange, we can get some more sugar. We do not any more eat cither meat or fish: now we must give up home-made cakes and compote and jam. At the time of the so much despised Liberal Government, we never fell so low. even at the end of the 1914-1918 war. What will happen to us if we enter war in these conditions?”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1940, Page 3
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196MUSSOLINI’S ITALY Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1940, Page 3
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