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Show f ITALIANS ARE U. S. ENEMIES Of7 the coast of the United States of America, a submarine commanded by Lieut-Commander Fecia di Sossato sank four additional addi-tional merchant ships aggregating twenty thousand tons, thus increasing in-creasing his total tonnage destroyed destroy-ed during his present cruise to 32,000." The above statement is taken from a communique issued by the Italian high command at Rome on March 29. It should remind the people of the United States that, they are at war with Italy as well as with Germany ana japan. Incidentally, somebody ought to ask the isolationists in the United States why we are fighting the Italians. Certainly, the United States had no desire to begin warfare war-fare against the Italians. In fact, our people were generally seduced with the idea that the Italian people peo-ple were duped by Mussolini into an alliance with Hitler and thus unwittingly led into war. The fact that Italy declared war against the United States, just after the Japanese attack up Pearl I Harbor, is ample proof of the existence of the suspected alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan, Ja-pan, for the purpose of making war- against this country. That the Italian high command boasts of the cooperation of Italian submarines off the coast of this country is evidence to refute the idea that the Italian people are unwilling un-willing enemies of this country. The truth of the matter is that the Italians cannot be distinguished from the guilty peoples of Germany Ger-many and Japan and, consequently, consequent-ly, must expect to bear their share of the burden of war guilt. It will be important for the people peo-ple of this country to remember this when the time comes to right the wrongs of the present war. |