Evening star., 1940-10-09
Duce's Paper Offers
u, :, British Colonies
To Stay Out Of War
New Heavy Blows at
England With Fresh
Forces Are Predicted
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
! ROME, Oct. 9-Premier Musso-
lini's newspaper II Popolo d1talia
said today that new heavy blows
against Britain with the interven-
ton Of fresh forces were imminent
and offered British territory in the
Western Hemisphere to the United
States if she remained out Of the
war.
The newspapers military COM
menator, Mario Appelius, said the
United States must choose among
three decisions:
| l. ITO remain neutral until the
| destruction of the British empire
has been effected and to take its
place among its natural heirs with
Canada. Newfoundland. the Bahia
mas, Bermuda and Jamaica as its
expectations.
2. To continue to aid England
without intervening in the war and
| find herself in an inferior diplo-
matte condition" when the British
empire is split up at peace con-
| ference, as we'll as in future trade
agreements.
3. To enter the war knowing she
is not militarily ready and meet all
the consequences of defeat"
The final course, Appelius said,
would be suicide"
! Might Also Get Australia.
If the United States remains neu-
trail, the commentator went on, she
might also get Australia and New
Zealand, while British Honduras
would go to Guatemala, British
Guiana to Brazil and the Falkland
Islands to Argentina.
New heavy blows are imminent
which will aggravate the already
desperate situation of the British
Empire and further reduce its power
of resistance" Appelius asserted.
Without North American aid,
England already would have COL
lapsed"
/ The commentator said Japan's
alliance with Germany and Italy
had aggravated London's tragic sit
uation." and he declared:
Other situations which have rip
ened recently or which are ripening
in Europe, Africa and Asia are &C
centuating its collapse. The axis
and Japan can count on the inter-
vention of new French forces"
! Appelius said North American in
tervention offered the "only means
by which England can prolong its re-
sistance."
Axis Action Seen Near.
The new plan of military action
drafted by the axis chiefs at Bren-
ner Pass last Friday was be-
| lieved in some quarters ready
for execution as II Duce inspected
troops of the 18th Army Corps en-
camped near Gorilla, within Is miles
of the Yugoslav frontier
Mussohni flew to Gorilla and then
campment.
Tomorrow he will review 10000
young Fascist volunteers at Padua.
The ceremony will be broadcast on
an international network at 11:25
am. 4:25 am, E. S. t., and there
have been indications that II Duce
might seize this occasion to make a
speech indicating some of the de-
cisions reached at last weeks con-
ference with Hitler.
Some observers suggested the
Hitler-M -Mussolini plan of action
might turn to the Near East, specifi-
cally to control of the Strait of
Dardanelles, through which oil tank
ers pass from Black Sea ports.
Turkey and Greece are both
friendly with Britain and it was
suggested that the axis powers might
find provocation in that quarter.
Any action by the axis powers in
that direction would satisfy two
equally desirable aims-assure oil
supplies for the German Italian
war machine while cutting OIL these
supplies from Britain,