TRINKETS OVER LONDON
DROPPED BY ITALIAN AIRMEN. SOME HAD RUNNING INSCRIPTION. Londoners were amused.to discover that rings, medallions and other trinkets had been dropped-by Italian pilots who took part in air raids over London. There was some speculation as to the purpose of this apparently puerile action. It is now believed that they were intended to encourage members of the Italian “Fifth Column” in England. The notion is in conformity with the general course of Italian behaviour on other occasions. D’Annuncio, for example, dropped roses over Vienna during the last war. All these bits of imitation jewellery bore inscriptions in Italian. One ring made of pewter, showed a head' of Mussolini wearing a tin hat and a particularly grim expression. Underneath were the words “tire-remo diritti,” a punning phrase meaning: “We shall forge ahead” or: “We shall shoot straight.” A medallion had a long exhortation to Italians to preserve unity and follow the Duce.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1940, Page 5
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154TRINKETS OVER LONDON Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1940, Page 5
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