The Archive · 1940

Italian Students Demonstrate

Prince Umberto to See Pope; Holy Father May Point Out War Dangers

Rome, May 6. Details have reached here of an organized anti-Allied demonstration in Milan, over the week-end, by about 100 students, These young men marched through the streets shouting "Long Live Germany," and "Death to Britain and France!"

They chalked on walls; "We want Hitler in London, and Mussolini in Paris,"

"Napoleon's attempt to invade England will certainly, and soon, be attempted by Germany in this war," declared Signor Giovanni Ansaldo, the editor of Count Ciano's newspaper, "Il Telegrafo," in a weekly broadcast to Italian troops, "We have already seen remarkable happenings, We shall see even more remarkable ones, which will shake the pillars of the world," he added, —Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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