ITALIAN PREMIER SAYS FALL OF GERMAN EMPIRE LEFT AN ACHING VOID
Rome, Italy (JFK+50) On November 13, 1923, The Evening Star gives Italian premier Benito Mussolini's* opinion "on the present situation in Germany."
The Premier is quoted from the preface of a recent book by R. Shuster...
"The fall of the (German) empire left an aching void. Berlin secretly aspires to a return of the glistening capital of the empire."
Mussolini is also quoted as adding...
"(Germany) has no army and therefore is pacifist** because she cannot wage war."
*Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was born in Predappio, Italy & founded the National Fascist Party. BM served as Prime Minister of Italy 1922-1943 & as Duce of the Italian Social Republic 1943-1945.
**pacifist...belief that war & violence are unjustifiable.
SOURCE
"Mussolini Sees Germans Aching For Kaiser Rule," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 13, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
