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Yowled Mussomouthpiece Virginio Gayda: ". . . repellent war aims, a gross and clumsy gesture of Anglo-Saxon warmongering, useless and grotesque...
...second loudest noise in Italy was tuned to the same wave length. In the Giornale d'ltalia, Fascist Loudspeaker Virginio Gayda wishfully declared that Government intervention in the North American Aviation Inc. strike forecast "civil...
What Italy would get remained a mystery. By her work in the war, she had earned nothing, but it seemed likely that for propaganda purposes Mussolini must be given something. While Virginio Gayda was pettishly scolding Swiss newspapers for belittling Italy's contribution to the victory, Italian troops entered two South Dalmatian ports and the Roman press hopefully remembered Venetian colonies in Dalmatia 150 years ago. But Dalmatia, with its excellent Adriatic ports, belonged to Austria more recently and is a favorite German vacation resort...
Words of woe came from the totalitarian front. Although the Italian press buried the news of the bill's passage, it began an anti-U.S. campaign which increased in intensity as the days went by. "Roosevelt's gesture," pontificated Virginio Gayda, "which means open intervention in the war against the Axis, may in the end put into motion the functions of the Tripartite Pact and cause many unpleasant surprises to England and the United States in the Pacific." Echoed La Tribuna: "Soon Japan will say her word...
Even Italian Virginio Gayda, who habitually talks taller than all the Seven Hills of Rome, not only stopped trumpeting about the Greek war having been won by diplomacy, not only stopped talking about the huge force the British were supposed to be landing at Salonika, but even lent credence to "reports in Egypt" that now the Greeks were going to help the British in Libya. He wrote: "The British ... as well as Greek troops must abandon Balkan aid and rush to the weakened, endangered Wavell Army...