ENEMY COLLAPSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1940, Page 5

ENEMY COLLAPSE

OBSERVATIONS BY GREEK MINISTER REFUTATION OF ITALIAN PROPAGANDA. • “MUSSOLINI’S LAST DAYS OF POWER.” (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 26. M. Nicoloudis, the Greek Minister of Information, in a broadcast, refuted Italian propaganda assertions and referred to Mussolini as perhaps enjoying his last days of power. He added that Italian propaganda pretended it was not the Greeks who were the victors, but British gunners, whereas not one British gunner was on the Albanian front. Britain’s immortal Navy and admirable Air Force reinforced the Greek resistance to the invader, but the victory on the Albanian front was exclusively due to the Greek bayonets. Italian propaganda maintained that Italy had declared war not against Greece but against Britain, whereas the British, while fighting heroically against their own enemies, were not on Greek territory till several days after the Italian invasion. “Fate has decreed that the cause of Fascist Italy shall collapse in ridicule, thanks to a little country enjoying a single advantage against a powerful invader—moral and spiritual superiority,” he added.