ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS
MADE BY MUSSOLINI. TO GET OUT OF WAR & SAVE HIS FACE. ’ (Received This Day. 0.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. While the Allied radios are hammering home the joint ChurchillRoosevelt message to the Italian people, it has been revealed in London that in recent months Fascist diplomats have tried hard to find a way out of the war which at the same time would save the face of Mussolini and the Fascist regime. The 8.8 C., Nqw York and Algiers radios are broadcasting the joint message at frequent intervals. The Algiers radio read the statement in Italian, French, English and German, on two wave-lengths. The announcer invited listeners to spread the news that the message would be read again in every broadcast throughout the day. The “Evening Standard's” diplomatic correspondent says it can be revealed that Mussolini offered his “help" to get Italy out of the war. He made special approaches to Washington, but they were turned down. Mussolini’s idea of peace terms was very “conditional” and did not correspond in any way with the Casablanca declaration of unconditional surrender. Washington and London made it clear that nothing short of a clean sweep as far as
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1943, Page 3
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