Have you ever asked yourselves in an hour of meditation, which every one finds during the day, how long we have been at war. The Ethiopian war was hardly finished when from the other shore of the Mediterranean there reached us appeals from General Franco, who had begun his national revolution. We have actually been at war since 1922-that is from the day when we lifted the flag of our revolution, which was then defended by a handful of men against the Masonic, democratic, capitalistic world. From that day world liberalism, democracy and plutocracy declared and waged war against us with press campaigns, spreading libelous reports, financial sabotage, attempts and plots even when we were intent upon the work of international reconstruction which is and will remain for centuries, as the undestroyable documentation of our creative will. But developments in history, which sometimes are speeded up, cannot be halted any more than the fleeting moment of Faust could be halted.
History takes one by the throat and forces a decision.
During that brief period of time we faced and overcame exceptional difficulties. The lightning-like and crushing victory of Germany in the West eliminated the eventuality of a long continental war. Since then the land war on the Continent has ended and it cannot flare back. Some people who today apparently think Italy's intervention was premature were probably the same who then I deemed it too late. In reality the moment was timely because if it is true that one enemy was in the course of liquidation there remained the other, the bigger one, the most powerful enemy number one against whom we are engaged and against whom we will continue the struggle to the last drop of blood.