Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-08-20

But 1t is TOO early yet IoI ilo-
erty-loving Americans to roll out
the barrel and toast the liberia
ton of the Italian people.
Already, as in the stinkful case
of North Africa, the double-talk-
ing diplomats are sneaking to
King Victor Emanuels back door.
shifting for a chance to sell the
common people of Italy down the
river. Apologies for Badoglio's
long service to the Fascist regime
are flowing thick and fast.
The air is full of oily admoni-
tions about the need to keep or
der in Italy, and the stencil of
treachery taints the breezes that
blow from high places in Wash
ington and London.
FINE TALK PUT TO TEST
Now we shall see if all the fine
talk about "liberating the peo-
pies of the Axis nations" is the
real Mccoy or just SO much
sugary bait in a political trap.
We shall see if all those who
professed to desire peoples
revolution against Fascism in
Italy were talking turkey or just
playing with the notion.
The time for discussing revo-
luton in Italy over pink tea has
passed; zero hour is arrived. and
realistic progressives will take
their place on the side of the
Italian common people, in oppo-
sition to wishy-washy kings. op-
portunistic prime ministers, Fas-
cist turn-coats and all other gad-
gets of a moth-eaten monarchy.
If ever there was an occasion
for American workers to shout
their fellowship with their long
suffering brothers in Italy, that
time is now.
DEAL WITH THE PEOPLE
Let the political deals in Italy
be made with the common peo-
pie; the workers and peasants,
the artisans and shopkeepers--
and let these deals be made from
the top of the deck.
We Americans ought to be
first and foremost in assisting
the Italian people to sweep their
slate clean of Fascism, royalty,
king and all such remnants of
feudal aristocracy. 1t is only one
hundred and sixty-seven years
since the patriots of our own
land rose up in righteous wrath
and slapped down king, in or
der to build a new nation on the
firm foundation of democracy
and free government by the peo-
pie.
To keep faith with the revo-
lutionary tradition of our own
nation, we ought to sing out now,
for the world to hear, that we
are one hundred per cent in ia
vor of giving the oppressed
masses of Italy a free hand in
setting up their own democratic
government.
ROAD TO FOUR FREEDOMS
The way to win the Italian
people to our side-so that they
will render maximum aid in con-
tinuing the war against the Ma
zis and Japanese imperialists--
is the way of forthwith permit
ting them to start under their
own power on the road to the
Four Freedoms. Given the assur-
ance of our backing, and the op-
portunity to freely work out
their own destinies, they will
give us their best in dealing a
Knockout punch to Hitler.
American workers can help
the Italian peoples revolution
by raising plenty of domestic
hell here at home against the
stuffed shirt statesmen and dou-
ble-dealing diplomats who are
oafishly ogling Badoglio.
Freedom, singly or fourfold,
can never come to Italy through
the offices of two-bit kings, ex-
Fascists or American and British
diplomats who fear the fury of
a peoples revolution. This is the
great truth of the hour that
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