Rome, May 8, The Italian press, taking a new tax in tne anu-mush campaign, 1s now endeavouring to prove tha. Britain's decision to close the Straits of Gioraitar in the event that Italy enters the war on the German side would be bound to fail in its purpose.
Italian imports, the journals stressed, may be replaced and even cut down considerably. with no apprecia able difficulty.
Signor Virginia Gayda, Mussolini's mouth-piece, writes in the "Giornale d'Italia" that the Sritish and French plans as regards the Gibraltar closing would prove "another fatal illusion, "Only Facts Will Break My Silence"
Rome, May 9.
"Having heard my speeches, you must accustom yourselves to my silence for only facts will break it," declared Signor Mussolini today, when he addressed 60,000 Italians who had broken the barriers and rushed towards the famous balcony in the Palazzo Venezia. The Duce Both the White House and the State Department, however, emphasized that the retention of the Fleet in Hawaiian waters was entirely the idea of Admiral James O. Richardson, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Navy. over U.S. moves in the Pacific, it was
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