GLOOM IN ITALY
DUCE ILL & DISAPPOINTED MAN LIVING SURROUNDED BY GESTAPO. PEOPLE KEEN LISTENERS TO 8.8. C. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, September 17. Highly-placed Americans returning home from Italy paint a gloomy picture of conditions in Italy. They say that Mussolini ,is an ill and disappointed man. He is reported to be living in semi-seclusion surrounded by members of the Gestapo. The Italian people are openly saying they would prefer to become a British rather than a German colony. The Italians are keen listeners to 'the 8.8. C. which gives them all the news. Their own stations dole out small, inspired bulletins. Food everywhere is rationed, and clothing and shoes are almost unpurchasable by the average peasant.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 6
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119GLOOM IN ITALY Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 6
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