AXIS PROPAGANDA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1943, Page 3

AXIS PROPAGANDA

ASSERTION OF UNBROKEN RESOLUTION GERMAN AND JAPANESE BLUSTER. MUSSOLINI SAID TO BE BACK IN ITALY. LONDON, September 27. Messages from Herr von Ribbentrop, Signor Mussolini and Mr Shigemitsu, the Japanese Foreign Minister, in which they declared that the Axis remained unbroken, and would continue to fight to the end, were broadcast from the Berlin radio tonight, on the third anniversary of the Tripartite Pact. Ribbentrop asserted that Mussolini tonight returned to Italy to help the first meeting of the republican Fascist government. Ribbentrop said that the Germans would not lay down their arms until the Bolshevist danger to Europe was finally removed. Italy was a glaring example of what Europe might expect from the British and Americans. “Let whatever hard blows there may be in store for us come. Our soldiers will fight on.” Mussolini said' that the Italian Republican Fascist Party had decided to continue with all its strength the fight side by side with its partners. Shigemitsu said: “We are at present counter-attacking and resolved to continue the battle till final victory. Come what may and whatever treachery the Badoglio regime may have committed, the Axis Pact remains unbroken. Japan is fighting a war solely of self-de-fence. We see clearly that the AngloSaxon Powers are determined to destroy the Axis Powers who stand in the way of their domination of the world. We at the moment are resisting fierce enemy attacks in the east and the west. By defending our right to live we will free east Asia from British and American exploitation.”