2e de 4o io 20 Jo 4o fo Allies Advance to Cambrai Mediterranean basin and the Balkans, But as one of the world's shrewdest Latest war news early this morning stated that Allied forces had successfully advanced tp the outskirts of Cambrai while German units had cut through a gap between Arms and Bapaume and had reached Boulogne where heavy fighting was in progress.
Between Valenciennes and Cambrai great armies are locked im desperate battle.
"He can hardly' fail to be aware that while Italy might retain he nominal independence she would become in fact a virtual Nazi colony governed by himself as a sort of Hitlerian viceroy.
"A. high Fascist official told me in Rome thet never more than now has Fascism and the monarchy been so harmonious, He said that Fascism of late has swung closer to the monarchy and monarchy closer to the result being that while Il Duce and King Victor may differ on trifles they are now in agreement on entals, reporty to the contrary! notwithstanding.
"Iti this is true, it is extremely significant, for King Victor 1s known to be opposed to any war against Britain end France, especially since the invasion of Scandinavia, Belgium "Thus Sig, Mussolini Pope, the King, President Roosevelt ind the sentiment of almost the entire Italian people, not to mention that of Par-America against the war being permitted to spread, "On the other hari, things may have "gone so far now that Il Duce may find he can not stay out. For his purposes he may have to come in whether he wants to or not in order io safeguard 'Italy's legitimate aspirations' against his own Axis ally, "That is to say, in the hypothesis of a German victory, Italy's claims probably would be given short shrift unless they were based on actual military accomplishments, "Some well posted neutrals in Paris, therefore, believed that should Italy enter the war she may limit her objectives.
"The semi-official "Lo' Temps' pointedly reminded Italy today that the homeric struggle now raging in Flanders may determine the fate of western civilization of which Italy herself is very much a part, Admitting that Mussolini's claims are not unjustifiable and not necessarily inharmonious with the cause for which the Allies are fighting, "Lo Temps" asked what would become of Italian sovereignty, prestige and aspirations in the event of a Nazi vietory."—United Press,
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