The Archive · 1941

Peace Professions

I wish to reject and repudiate all the futile chatter gnd defamation by those people who pretend to know that Italy wants to prepare for war.

Italy will never take the initiative in promoting war—January '5, 1931, In a message in English on a British Movietone newsreel.

We desire peace with all countries, with those that are. distant, those that ere' near. those that are very wear.—August 1, 1931. At Ravenna, pening an aqueduct dedicated to those who fell in the last War.

Italy supports a lasting understanding among the Great Powers, so as to guarantee" pite efficiently the peaceful development ofthe smaller States—January 1, 1934. In the Berlin "Bérsen-Courier."

The Italian people demands to be left in peace because it is intent on a long and hard task.—Mareh 17, 1937.

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

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