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...Mediterranean last week. Beneath the clear blue waters of Mare Nostrum lurked Italian submarines. The Italian press showed no signs of abating its anti-Ally campaign, and across the Alps in Germany a visiting Fascist Grand Councilman, one Pietro Capoferri, cried to a group of chemical workers: "When Il Duce gives us the command we will march with you, to the triumph of justice and liberty...
That London and Paris thought Il Duce was really on the warpath was too obvious to be concealed. A French Foreign Office spokesman admitted that the Italian attitude toward the Allies had become "definitely alarming," that the Foreign Office was ''frankly uneasy." In London Lloyd's raised war-risk rates for travel in the Mediterranean and Near East and the Admiralty took a step it had taken only once before-on war's eve, last August-ordered all British shipping out of the Mediterranean...
...Truce? All this looked like so serious a threat to peace in the Mediterranean that U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, on orders from Washington, asked for and got a personal interview with Il Duce (see p. 19). They talked for 45 minutes and correspondents guessed that Mr. Phillips had told Mussolini that the U. S. would keep its shipping out of the Mediterranean if Italy went to war. But that would have been no news to Benito Mussolini. That the U. S. Government was putting all possible "pressure" on Italy to keep the peace was made clear next day when...
...Italy's highest-ranking officers, Marshal Enrico Caviglia, chose this critical moment to give Il Duce and his undernourished country some sound advice. In a sensational preface to a book, Totalitarian Warfare and Its Conduct, he declared: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary. In his calculations the military forces will not have the primary place, but rather the economic and financial forces." If Italian cinemagoers, stockbrokers and generals were uncomfortable about...
...said: "No people in Europe can isolate itself from conflict." Italy, Mouthpiece Ansaldo went on, has been preparing herself "for the occasion and the moment which will be most opportune for it. This occasion and this moment . . . may be much nearer than is believed." Only six days earlier Il Duce had cried at Orvieto: "Whatever may be the happenings which this late spring brings us, Italy will face them...