MUSSOLINI’S MISTAKE
A DEPARTURE TO U.S.A. Since Mussolini lias proclaimed in public on so many occasions that Italian war news is the most reliable of the lot. it seems a pity to have to correct one of its latest achievements (the "Manchester Guardian" observes). But the Rome wireless was wrong in announcing last wcel< that "the Queen Mother, Princess Elizabeth, and Princess Margaret Rose, accompanied by the Crown jewels," recently left for America on the same battleship as Lord and Lady Halifax. Actually (the English paper adds with gentle irony), it was Mr Churchill who departed, disguised ns till three of them and carrying the Crown jewels in a cigarbox. His place has since been supplied in public by a stuffed effigy, with Mr Duff Cooper (who has lately made great progress with the ventriloquial arli supplying the voice. Mr Anthony Eden, by the way. is in a concentration camp. It is Mr Vic Oliver who has gone to Ankara, where his makeup is said to have deceived even Sir John Dill.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1941, Page 7
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172MUSSOLINI’S MISTAKE Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1941, Page 7
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