The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-14

s from which actual attack on rtai, lcould be launched.
 They point to the job which General Montgomery now seems tc he doing on General Rommel, ct al. in Libya.
 They point to the British bomb. ing raids on the Italian industrial area around Turin and Genoa.
 RIDDLE PLEASED THEM
 No one thing has given Italians in the United States e bigger lift than the Columbus Day announce. ment from Attorney General Fran cis Riddle, lifting the stigma oi enemy alien" from the 60O,OOO un- naturalized born-in~Italy residents of the country. Radio Rome tried to label that as . prediction Roosevelt trick, and in short wave broadcasts beamed at the United States, the Italian mouthpieces tried to warn American citizens of Italian birth not to fall into this trap.
 Few people in the United States listen to Radio Rome, aside from the government-paid listeners.in who try to keep an ear tuned to the Fascist party line, but to fully ap- preciate how funny this warning of a Roosevelt trick" really is, all you have to do Is look at the elec- ton returns.
 Though Radio Rome has no ef- feet on what goes on in the United States, aimed at feeding accurate information into Italy for use by the Italian underground.
 The line for this U, 6. radio propaganda is determined by the Intelligence section of the Army General Staff. the once of Naval Intelligence, the State Department and the once of War Information's s Overseas section, the last mentioned agency being the one that actually handles the broadcasts.
 PROPAGANDA POLICY
 It is almost impossible for any one in the United States to follow these broadcasts from the United States to foreign countries, for it is only by luck and under freak at- mospheric conditions that a short wave receiver in the U. s. can pick up the beam. Naturally, the general staffs of the army and navy aren't putting out what their policy is in broadcasting to any foreign coun- try, but in general 1t can be said that the idea with regard to Italy is to put over to the Italian popula- tion the thought that the United Naions are not seeking to infiict any reprisals or punishments on the Italian people themselves for the misdeeds of the Fascist government under Mussolini.
 The main problem boils down to this fundamental of "softening up'' the Italians so as to prepare them to welcome possible invasion by United Nations troops.
 STRENGTH NOT KNOWN
 How strong the Italian under ground movement really is can't be determined and probably couldn't be told if 1t were known Anti--Fascists in the United States think it's pretty good. Americans who were in Italy right up to the time the United States got into the war aren't so sure. but American newspaper correspondents have been kicked out of Italy for writing stories about executions of anti Fascists.
 There are supposedly communists and liberal wings to anti-Fascism in Italy today, the communists probably being the stronger and better organized. In the United States. the Italian liberals are more important. But the point made by Italian leaders in the U. s. Is that both groups are working together now, against Mussolini.
 Specifically, the Italian under ground takes credit for much of the inefficiency of the Italian army. for sabotage of Italian war indus tries. for actually aiding the Yugo- slvian revolutionary movement un- der General Mikhailovitch.