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of impending doom in the ears of
those who remain.
The Prime Minister said the Al
lies hoped to obtain surrender of
all italy at one time rather than
piecemeal and also to have the
Anglo-American armies enter the
country as ''rescuers" rather than
"tvrants" who would have to police
the land.
The Allied armies already at the
portals of the Italian mainland. he
said. can bring IF the Italian peo-
ple so decide, relief from war and
freedom from servitude and, after
an interval. respectable place in
the new and rescued Europe"
ACTS IN CONCERT
Britain is acting in concert with
the united States, Churchill said,
and he personally is in daily con-
tact with President Roosevelt.
Russia is being kept regularly in
formed of the decisions. he added.
Churchill received one of his
greatest ovations from Commons
when he entered the chamber,
smiling broadly, at the end of the
question period.
The speech was interrupted fire.
ouently by cheers and laughter and
another ovation followed at the
end. Every seat in the chamber was
filled and all galleries were packed.
Mrs Churchill sat in the distin-
guished strangers gallery and high
United States officials and diplo-
mats from many other countries
also were present.
The end of Premier Benito Mus
solinis long and severe" reign over
the Italian people undoubtedly
marks the close of an epoch in the
life of Italy, he said.
1T doesn't seem u,,,i':e!y that the
entire Fascist edifice will fall to
the ground in ruins if it has not
already so fallen" Churchill said.
He described the deposal of Mus
solini as "the downfall of one of the
principal criminals of this desolat-
ing war"
1--WE may reasonably expect that
very great changes will take place
in Italy" he said. What their
form will be and how it will i'm
pinge upon the forces of German
occupation and control, it is too
early to forecast.
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SPELL is BROKEN
Now the external shock of war
has broken the spell which in Italy
held the people so long and, for all
this period, held them in physical
and even more in moral suoJec-
ton"
Churchill said that the totalitar-
ian system of government leaves the
masses of people without any IN
fluence over their country's destln-
les.
That is one defense for the peo-
pie of italy, although it cannot be
a real and valid defense for any
country or people which allows
freedom and inherent rights to
pass out of its hands," he said. The
Guilt and folly of Mussolinl nave
cost the italian people dear"
Churchill said he could not doubt
that the main wish of the Italian
people is to be quit of their German
task masters
He pointed out that British and
American armies which occupied
Italian Africa and the bulk OF Sicily
stand at the portals of the Italian
mainland.
what is it these vast forces bring
to Italy?" he asked. They bring
if the italian people so decide. re-
lief from war and freedom from
servitrde. after an interval, re-
spectable place in the new and res
cued Europe
"Should the Italians choose tha'
the Germans should have tneil
way." he said, mo choice Will OF
left open to us.
1--WE shall continue to make wal
on italy from every quarter"
He said the Germans naturally
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