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...Giovanni Ansaldo, editor of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's Leghorn newspaper Telegrafo, discovered last week why Americans do not like Totalitaria. Reason...
...shore batteries, the ships lay there and pumped broadside after broadside into Italy's fourth city, her chief merchant port. Over 300 tons of shells flew into docks, warehouses, oil tanks, power stations, supply ships, harbor installations, and into the electric and boiler works of the huge Ansaldo shipbuilding plant. In the whole operation, only one Swordfish was lost. The squadron included the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Renown, the 31,000-ton battleship Malaya, a veteran of Jutland, the 22,000-ton aircraft carrier Ark Royal, the 9,100-ton cruiser Sheffield, and a covering guard of smaller...
...Rome the lines were the same, though the voice that sang them was tenor. In his weekly broadcast to the Italian armed forces Editor Giovanni Ansaldo of the Leghorn Telegrafo cried: "Roosevelt is not fighting to save England. He is fighting for American imperialism, since he wants to replace England with the United States as a world power. Today the United States is doing what England did up to the present conflict-she is ready to fight to her ally's last...
...Albania, to improve the shattered discipline of the routed, retreating Blackshirts, hurried fierce, sporting Achille Starace, former Secretary of the Fascist Party, now chief of the Fascist Militia. Mussolini's mouthpiece, Giovanni Ansaldo, took pains to announce over the radio: "We must win the war in the Mediterranean with our own Army, quite alone." Crown Prince Umberto himself condoned with the families of the first victims of the Greeks...
...thousand more noncommissioned officers were called to their regiments, soldiers in full equipment marched through border towns, railroad stations clanged with freight cars moving artillery and munitions northwest toward the frontier of France. At week's end Editor Giovanni Ansaldo of Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's Leghorn newspaper Il Telegrafo broadcast word to the troops that the quiet mobilization that had been going on for several weeks was mobilization for war. As to Italy's reasons for going to war, Editor Ansaldo, in addition to those of territorial aggrandizement, put forth a unique reason. "How could...