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Today, in semiretirement in Montreal, Henri Bourassa is still slim, still wiry. His old voice has cracked a little, but he is thoroughly unreconstructed. Last winter he advised French Canadians not to believe German atrocity stories, told them that only an alliance between Franco, Salazar, Petain and Mussolini would save the world from Communism...
Italy. If mistakes had been made in Italy, they were military, not political. ("It may be that after the fall of Mussolini our action might have been more swift or audacious.") For the land of Italy he had a traveled Briton's feeling: ". . . this beautiful country suffering the worst horrors of war . . . with the hideous prospect of a red-hot rake of battle lines being drawn from sea to sea right up the whole length of the peninsula...
...popular women's club lecturer in the mid-'30s he whacked Mussolini, the Liberty League, Republicans. As an all-out interventionist when World War II began, he told Harvard students that war was not much worse than "crossing the traffic in Harvard Square." In 1940 Dr. Elliott went to Washington as consultant for the National Defense Advisory Commission; the next year he became OPM's raw materials expert, loudly urged stockpiling of tin, rubber, etc. He rightly predicted that the U.S. might soon be cut off by Japan from its chief supply sources. Surviving the transmutation...
Like other dictators, Alberoni confessed to three plausibly well-intentioned ambitions : 1) to put Spain back on its imperial feet; 2) to free his native Italy from Austria; 3) to restore peace to Europe. He reorganized Spain's industry, revitalized its civil service-the equivalent of Mussolini's making the railroads run on time...
Italians who once fought without love for Mussolini and are now prisoners of war will be given the chance to become active participants on the other side. The War Department announced last week that Italian captives, of whom 50,136 are interned in the U.S., may volunteer in the U.S. Army...