Show Henry McLemore Why Should Allies Make Talk With Italy Mac Questions NEW YORK Why not let Italy ask for peace What's wrong with having Marshal Badoglio and the House of ot Savoys Savoy's Savoys Savoy's Savoys Savoy's Sa Sa- Sa- Sa voys voy's leading midget contact Roosevelt Churchill or EIsenhower Elsen Elsen- hower bower After all Badoglio o and King Vittorio Emanuele are i in the tight spot They are the ones ones who are looking for an out Why should the allied leaders make talk taU with them What is the sense of getting the upper upper upper up up- per hand if just as soon as you get the upper hand you extend the helping hand Unless our propaganda system system tem tern the propaganda system atthe of at the British and the propaganda systems of all the other allied nations is haywire the one thing the Italians fear is a up stand-up war against up stand-up soldiers It seems to me that the proper thing to bring Italy to its knees is a flat declaration that until it quits and quits for good there will be no peace either by day or night and that every hour it stands in a a. defiant pose brings it closer a out all de de- de- de tion Im I'm not complaining against the allied attempt to knock out Italy with pamphlets If It when the pamphlets were dropped and Eisenhower issued his terms of at surrender the Italians had accepted th their lr fate and said All Allright Allright Allright right were we're done for that would have been lovely The lives of many allied troops would have been saved But having failed to see the light Italy should now get a different set of pamphlets and anda a different set of ot terms from Eisenhower The Italians should be told that they have blown their chance of peace and from now on it is every Italian for himself that bombers and fighters will roar over their cities that when the invasion atthe of at the mainland comes the allied soldiers will come with drawn drawl bayonets and blood In their eyes and that having refused the decent decent decent de de- de- de cent offer of of decent men they will have to suffer the conse conse- Italy was offered an honorable peace That of course is more than it deserves because everyone everyone everyone every every- one knows that Italy went into the war dishonorably The marshal marshal mar mar- and the king and all the subjects could read between the lines and know t that at the allies aIlles if it their terms were accepted were going to behave themselves on arriving in Italy They knew there would be no looting no shooting no vicious abuse of enemy soldiers or civilians Asa As As' Asa a matter of fact they had every right to believe that the allies would bring food with them and offer otter succor succor- to the men and women who joined in a betrayal of ot civilization a few years ago But the offer was turned down As I write this it is still turned down The he marshal and I the king apparently cant can't makeup makeup make up their minds what to do what dO-what what with German on the north and the allies on the south If Italy is so no committed to the nazis so completely bound up in the unholy unholy un un- un holy alliance with Hitler and Tojo that it cant can't break away then the thing to do is to beat Italy so badly that it doesn't matter whether it breaks away or not Lets Let's drop pamphlets saying the allies dont don't want any peace with Italy that they consider consider con con- sider aider it a privilege and a d de delight delight de- de light a slight repayment for what the axis did to other helpless helpless help help- less countries to send their bombers over without fear of flak or fighters Lets Let's drop another another another an an- other batch of ot pamphlets say ing that our soldiers will bring only enough food to sustain themselves and that if that food runs out they will ransack the Italian countryside for vic vIc- In short lets let's put the fear of merciless conquest in their souls Lets Let's give the them a feeling that if it they dont don't have enough sense listen to reason and revolt against their German krman masters they will get a conquest patterned patterned patterned pat pat- along axis lines JInes After Atter all Italy has no more right to escape hell than did Poland Belgium Holland an and Greece and the other other- countries overrun by the axis when they had no Fear Is what the Italians fear When they get it bad they'll ask for terms And ask for I them quick Distributed by Syndicate Inc |