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Italy. The mock battle ended in a great victory. The 50,000 troops reviewed at Turin were rhapsodized as "the steel vanguard of a nation in arms which intends to pluck victory in the light...
...that widen and slope downward into Italy. In modern times no Army has invaded France from Italy, but although the Po and its tributaries form a series of defensive positions at which Italians could check invaders who penetrate the mountain barrier, at the western end of the valley lie Turin and, further east, Milan, Italy's chief industrial centres. If they should fall, Italy's war days might be numbered. Italy's problem is to check a military invasion at its outset -west of these cities...
...paces before Il Duce, King Vittorio Emmanuele, and German, Hungarian, Spanish and Japanese military missions. The troops first concentrated near Padua (see map). Their task was to dash 230 miles across North Italy to repulse "Red" (French) invaders who had supposedly overwhelmed the frontier and were descending on Turin from the Alpine passes...
When the bridge was finished, the armored divisions rumbled across to catch up with the troops converging east of Turin. Il Duce, who had flown his own plane from Rimini, watched the maneuvers from the air. He swooped low over the columns crossing the Ticino and was reported to be "pleased at the way they hid themselves from aerial observers...
...mile non-stop cruise to and from Marseille, where large crowds gathered in the streets to watch the demonstration. Lighter bombers cruised over Orleans and Paris. Not bashful were the British in pointing out that the Marseille bombers, had they veered slightly to the left, would have been over Turin, Italy's big munitions-manufacturing city, or had they taken a course directly eastward from Britain would have circled over Berlin...