The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-06-03
Observations
Italy Has Chance
10 Bring End to =
Present Status
BY Charles p. Stewart

LIKE FUEHRER HITLER. Dues
Mussolini will have to surrender
Internationally 10 the United Ma
tons to restore peace 10 their re-
spective peoples.
British Foreign Secretary Antho-
ny Eden. recently a visitor in this
country, made this clear few days
ago at Portsmouth, England. in a
speech which attracted considera-
Bile attention in Washington. That
is. complete destruction OF the
Nazi and Fascist regimes, and all
they stand for" are insisted on by
the democracies as their only bass
for a termination OF hostilities.
II is the same warning as the one
broadcast by President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill a.
the time of their Casablanca con.
ference and repeated by the Presi.
dent unconditional surrender
during the British prime minister's
recent sojourn in our own capital.
Secretary Eden. however, left
little crack in the door open in an
additional warning 10 Italians gen
orally.
He didn't qualify as to Fascism.
That. he emphasized must be ex-
terminated gtterly- He raised the
question. though, why don't the
Italian masses exterminate IT, II
they do so. he pointed out, It will
be unnecessary for the Allies 10 eX-
terminate the nations rank-and-file
also.
It is pretty well recognized in
democratic lands that average ltal-
ians didn't want to become involved
in the totalitarian tie-up. They slid
into IT, no doubt carelessly, but un-
Intentionally. Now, IL they will
terminate Mussolini and hand his
remains out to the democracjes on
a silver platter, they may still have
10. 20 through the form Of surren-
dering Internationally. but it's a
certainty that the democracies,
voluntarily, will make generous
terms with them.
Benito presumably will be
bumped off in the process.
II he actually is delivered corpor'
eally, he'll be something OF a prob
lem.
He was moderately liberal
Milan newspaper editor at World
War No. is end. Italy was In terri
bic economic shape. He took i
prominent, not uninteliigent and
temporarily public-spirited part in
attempts at improvement
met enlightened Americans at
the time. who. visiting Italy, spoke
very admiringly OF him. | don't dare
70 name them now, because, II did,
II would he to smear them as early
Axis sympathizers. All the same,
there were American conserva-
tives among them.
suppose that Benito had such
a heck OF an interval that he fell
over-easily for Adolf.
Adolf has been hated from the
start l can remember land not so
far back) when Benito was as
sessed az less than a mild radical.
think that, maybe, his distressed
country went kind OF cuckoo and
dragged him with II.
Well. he was sucked in, anyway.
Italy, today. isn't so bughouse.
At present she doesn't enjoy be-
ing air-raided, or invaded, in Ger
manys direction. Benito will have
to take the consequences.
Italy. then, obviously being con-
WINGED Of the Duce's mismanage-
ment. would like TO quit, as uncondi.
tionally as possible, hoping for as
liberal conditions as are available.
She knows there's an inclination TO
be merciful-barring Benito.
Germany is different. Benito u
blamed for Italian bungling. Ger
many is blamed for the creation Of
folk like Adolf.
So here you have it
Making terms with Italy is
making terms with Itaiy-normally
nice. friendly folk. with a crazy,
small-bore Duce considered an in
ternational freak.
Or
2. Terms with a whole bughouse
German nation. liable to develop q
dangerous empire any minute. Not
that the whole German nation is so
crazy. but It is too susceptible TO
the dastardly antics OF some such
guy as Herr Hitler.