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Show Carrying War To Italy Coincident with the beginning of the battle in Egypt the British have delivered some stupendous aerial attacks upon key Italian cities. Naturally, the objective is to disorganize Italian shipping facilities in order to prevent the dispatch of suplies and reinforcements reinforce-ments to Gen. Rommel. The aerial offensive is apt 'to produce another result. Certainly Certain-ly is will tend to dispel the e- quanimity with which the Italians Ital-ians have regarded the bombing of German centers. For some strange reason there seems to exist an idea, not altogether al-together missing in this country, that it is good strategy to treat the Italians as friends. The belief be-lief persists, in come quarters, that we can eventually win Italian Ital-ian opinion and, maybe, pave the way for a bloodless victory. This is a foolish idea, it seems to us. The best way to put the fear of God into Italian hearts Is to give them a taste of the medicine they droped out to the Spaniards, the Ethiopians, the Albanians and the Greeks. So far as we can see, successful success-ful strategy in war makes it necessary to take a declaration of war against us as a maetter Of business, requiring a businesslike business-like reply. The Italians decided to declare war upon the United States, in support of their allies, the Japanese, and it is our duty, just as soon as possible, to convince con-vince them that making war upon up-on the United States is no monkey mon-key business. |