‘YOU CAN HAVE PEACE’
ON CEASING ALL ASSISTANCE TO GERMANS EISENHOWER’S TIMELY WORD TO ITALIANS. . ON BEHALF OF THE ALLIED GOVERNMENTS. A direct offer of peace to the Italian people from General Eisenhower, speaking on behalf of the Allied Governments, was broadcast today in a special announcement from the Allied forces headquarters in North Africa. We commend he Italian people and the House of Savoy on ridding themselves of Mussolini, the man who involved them in war as the tool of Hitler and brought them to the verge of disaster,” it states. ‘‘The greatest obstacle to Italian peace with the United Nations has been removed by the Italians themselves. The only remaining obstacle on the road to peace is that the German aggressors ars still on Italian soil.
“You want peace. You can have peace immediately, a peace under the honourable conditions which our Governments have already offered. We are coming to you as liberators. You must cease immediately any assistance to the German military forces in your country. If you do this we will rid you from the Germans and relieve you from the horrors of war. “As you have already seen in Sicily, our occupation will be mild and beneficent. If all British and Allied prisoners who are now in your hands are delivered safely to us and not carried away to Germany the hundreds of thousands of Italian prisoners captured in Africa and Sicily will be returned to their homes. The ancient traditions of your country will be restored.”
The Rome radio has been saying this morning that resistance to the Allies must be continued. Messages from foreign correspondents, however, suggest that the Italians are very far from united at the moment, and reports have been coming in of demonstrations and disturbances in Italian cities, particularly in Milan, where “agitators” have been warned by the military governor and Rome radio that they will be shot.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1943, Page 3
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