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...Rome, the influential Fascist editor, Giovanni Ansaldo predicted that Italy will join Germany in attacking Britain as soon as France is conquered and, Ansaldo said, that will be soon...
...speak high and loud. . . . It is absurd to think that our country . . . shall not participate in the transformation of the map of Europe and perhaps of the world." In a broadcast to Italian troops at week's end, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano's mouthpiece, Giovanni Ansaldo, said: "No people in Europe can isolate itself from conflict." Italy, Mouthpiece Ansaldo went on, has been preparing herself "for the occasion and the moment which will be most opportune for it. This occasion and this moment . . . may be much nearer than is believed." Only six days earlier Il Duce...
Learned Insult. It all started about the time that Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop returned to Germany early last week after an apparently cool reception in Rome. Conclusion was reached that the Axis was bending. Fascist Journalist Giovanni Ansaldo even wrote an editorial for Leghorn's Telegrafo which contained a studied, learned insult...
...Ribbentrop] who, while we write, is mounting the Alps, which close Lamagna above Tiralli, we send our respectful salute," wrote Signer Ansaldo. The quotation is from Dante's Divine Comedy and no educated Italian needs to be told, it is often used to express the Italian command to the Germanic hordes to stay beyond the Alps...
...cotton piece goods, while Italians were supplying Haile Selassie with a powerful radio station at cut rates. As soon as it was in working order, His Majesty turned around and fired the whole Italian staff of technicians, made a sucker out of the great Italian electrical firm of Ansaldo Lorenz...