ITALY’S PLIGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 January 1941, Page 3

ITALY’S PLIGHT

FIGHTING FOR HER OWN ENSLAVEMENT OLi'2.’.NATIONS LY BRITISH MINISTER S. FASCISM HELD DOOMED P:. : A LONDON. January it>. The M.rn-m-r M Shipping ?.h Cr-.- • broadcasting X.-:-h America, sub- -‘ .levied trie Italian action .n oni.-ring the 2i war an.i her p.'-.-itn-n in the N.;. - ; 1 m-v The splendid Army of the Nile has .' gained military offensive rirength.’’ he .Jsaid. "It may not be possible to ent i gage our real enemy. Germany, for r.urie lime, but Germans' will c.-otmue a Hi receive our attention by air and the > ‘ ligerc-itcy were r.>! for war. but for a j share in lhe \ ietm y to be achieved, by ' i Germany Mussolini now finds it more [ ■ dangerous to be Hitler's ally (han HitI let's cre-my. but however badly Italy is J taring herself she is still useful to Geri ; many. l: The Minister said that, certain of an - . effor'less victory. Mussolini neglected :i) tn equip either the army or air force. ’’l trusii’tg to Ins ability to choose the '1 right moment io jump m. 1 Hiller’s judgment was no sotmder ’[than Mussolini’s. Hiller thought Briain was bour. I to , ivo in. mid. though he knew Italy would be a military lia?iLility rather than an asset, he was ji c. trent to regard Italy’s doubtful mili- • i tary value as a matter <-f little moment. i Events, however, belied his expeemi lions, and the Italian weakness ~n . became painful!', apparent. 1 ! r- .. .■ ' , • .... Mr. Cross pointed out that a modern . war required a plentiful supply of J such raw, materials coal. iron, tim- > I Her •■nd rubber Italy had nene of ■[ mo a- materia! - nor the capacity to -I " " them int” armaments. They could I only be obtained through Germany, i ■ and fr om the moment Italy became de--4 ' ; ' G< ”'••• ■ , " ' an 1 J more mto the p.-sitmn of a vassal. ) The real mean.rig ot llitlet’: "new i f-rclcr” was absolute supreme over* J lordship of Germany ever any cruntn ■ mini: within the orbit rd her power. "Within the new order on the Cott- ■ I :inent < f Europe, italy occupies by far ■ the most ignomtnous position.” said Mr' 1 Cross. "She is lhe only country which ' fights the war for her own enslave-[ mem." Other European countries had been subjected by various degrees of brutality, terror and compulsion, but I Fascist Italy alone was shedding the! { blood of tens of thousands of her own! I sons only to make more certain of her! servitude to the so-called ’ Herren - i vol I; ’ "The war is only beginning. The! black eye, bleeding nose and hits be- j ’ low the belt of which Britain has had' many do nof matter. We know we can: hang on.” Declaring that "Fascist Italy has deliberately willed this war against Eng- i land," Sir .Archibald Sinclair. Ministerj | for .Air. speaking ;r Glasgow, said that. I Italy had gained nothing from the j sacrifice of Italian lives in Spain.: She stands to lose everything because [ of Mussolini's cowardly miscalcula-i lions and unprovoked attacks, first on ■ France and Britain and then on the' heroic Greeks i Fascism w::< doomed Sn- .Archibald ' stated, and friends of Judy mu<t Imnci i that strong Italian forces would break I the grip ~f the Fascist regime before' i they were dragged down into German' i j I j I