The Archive · 1940

Italian Aspirations

Rome, June 18.

The Island of Cypr in the Mediterranean, and Jerusalem were advocated today as forming part of Italian aspirations by the newspaper "Piccolo", on the occasion of the meeting of Premier Benito Mussolini and Chancellor Adolf Hitler "somewhere in Germany."

The newspaper editorially pointed out that the Kings of the House of Savoy since the Middle Ages had Possessed the titles of "l g of Jerusalem."

According to the "Piccolo, King Richard, the Lion-Hearted sold Cyprus, which he occupied during the Third Crusade—United Press.

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

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