Word: appelius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome, Newscaster Mario Appelius was the first of his profession to talk back to a radio heckler. His program was interrupted by a voice exclaiming: "You are an Italian ass." Signor Appelius riposted: "That's better than being a British citizen." This led to an impromptu exchange of high-school wit. Later in the week, when the heckler's voice was faint, Signor Appelius tried for the large effect by crying: "Speak louder, ghost! No ghost will save England...
Keep traveling round and round the world and write a book a year about how everything looks when seen through Fascist spectacles: such is the formula of Mario Appelius, who when in Rome writes for Founder Benito Mussolini's Popolo d'ltalia. Last week Appelius wrote an editorial broadly hinting that the Axis would be glad to take the U. S. into partnership and share the spoils of World...
...Mario Appelius "offered" Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Bermuda to the U. S. as part of its living space in a Fascist "new world order," and all he asked as quid pro quo was that the U. S. should recognize Europe and Asia as the Lebensraum of Germany, Italy and Japan. (La Stampa of Turin, still more generous, offered the U. S. South and Central America as "living space...
...further inducement, Mario Appelius observed that if the U. S. goes into World War II on the side of Great Britain it will "commit suicide," that the U. S. people can be "saved" only if Great Britain is knocked out too quickly for the U. S. to get into trouble with the Axis. His hopeful conclusion: "The speed of the Axis will probably save the American people from the great tragedy to which plutocracy has condemned...
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