The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-07
defend her rights against the pre- sumptuous intrusion of anybody.

SuIlpIuOuS AlLEuSlOIl VI dLAypOOJ'
 England, swelled and well satisfied by the possession of the greatest colonial empire, was attempting to dominate the world through the crushing of the Italian colonial needs, but the imperial mighty fleet, mobilized in the Mediterranean sea, where the economic and moral life of an entire nation depend upon their development and free enter course, was of no use and had to content herself with meagre pa- rade of their incredible impotence from Gibraltar to the Suez Canal
 At that time Italy was doing what England and every other colonial nation did in the past; and England, especially England, had no business to interfere with. Now, the Ital- ians, in the battlefelds of battered Spain, are heroically defending their civilization and the civilization of the world against the bolsheviki of every land. They are battling. dying and winning so the shores Of the Roman Mediterranean would be spared from the horrors befalled to the shores of the Baltic and Black seas, and for that future peace which only orderly and moral re- sponsible governments can assure.
 England and France instead, fear ing for their already shaked hege- moniacal dream are following doubtful course. They, lacking the vision and the courage of the great moments of the national life, arc putting themselves and the democ- racies of the world at the service of communism. They never really worked for the peace of the world. Their international policy was al- ways for the protection of their sell fish interests, or for gaining the control of somebody else's possess sion. Consequently they cannot un- derstand the great, generous sacri- flee of the Italian people for the redemption of the Spanish nation.
 The history tells us that the 1tal- ian deeds are in every place of Eu- rope where a battle for the inde- pendence of a nation was fought. They fell by the thousand in France, in Greece, in Poland, in Hungary and everywhere a people was en- slaved or menaced. And they never asked for rewards or special con sideration. Once, somebody else did help Italy, but that time the 1tal- ians had to pay their helper with the secession of two of their most beautiful ana dearest provinces: Nice, the birthplace of Garibaldi and Savoy, the cradle of their king family. And some other nation was paid also, with the Italian renounce to any interest in the fate of the Italian island of Malta.
 The years have not changed the mentality of those people. It is only necessary to give a glance at the results of the World War for being persuaded that history repeated herself.
 Today the Spanish situation IS calling for the nations to take their positions couragously and without hesitation. Italy and her people are strongly supporting the orderly forces, and openly advocating a lasting peace that would consolidate in every nation the governments that will protect the rights of every citizen and would cooperate legally for the keeping of peace, respecting the rights of every other nation, and duly considering the needs of all.
 And for doing that, dear MT. Do- nato of the fiattering letter pub lished in The Democrat, everybody must have the courage to accept their responsibilities; the nations as a whole, and singularly every citizen. Shielding themselves un- der an anonymous name, being friend or opponent, is only a proof of timidity, or of an equivocal posi- ton. Respectfully yours
 NUNZIO MURNO.