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Axis stories grew and fattened. Berlin reported the 31,000-ton British battleship Malaya towed into Gibraltar, after having been put out of action in the Sicilian battle. Italy's spokesman Virginio Gayda raised Italy's score to ten British warships, then added another cruiser and the aircraft carrier Eagle, both torpedoed...
Last week Italy waked up to the fact that although Italians could not learn from their own papers how badly things were going in Greece, they could read all about it in papers from Switzerland. Several Swiss newspapers, including the Tribune de Geneve, were banned. Fascist Mouthpiece Virginio Gayda issued a stern warning to the Swiss press to stop printing what he called "unneutral" war news. The rest of the Italian press immediately took up the cry in shriller tones. Cried Popolo di Brescia...
...policy, and rises the status of editorial writers from stooges to thinking human begins. However, it is likely to throw the publishers into the ghastly predicament of profiting from a cause in which they don't believe; and rather than betray their principles, they continue to have their Virginio Gaydas root for the losing candidate. The public goodnaturedly ignores their cataclysmic appeals and sticks undisturbed to Superman and the candidate of its own choosing...
There was no question that all these hopeful factors had made Italians a little giddy. Wrote Benito Mussolini's mouthpiece Virginio Gayda: "Nothing can save Britain...
Next day Herr von Ribbentrop spent two hours with Benito Mussolini. Foreign correspondents, of the U. S. and of all those little nations which may be swallowed like oysters, buttonholed their Foreign Office friends, got only mysterious shakes of the head. Equally mysterious were the newspapers. Virginio Gayda's Giornale d'ltalia struck the true Walrus-&-Carpenter note in an editorial headlined No Hurry. "There is no necessity to tell all at this moment," wrote Mouthpiece Gayda...