Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-10-04
Italia

49, - 5OsONO Ao0J
To dezelo, katero SO bogovi bla-
gosloviji z rodovitno zemljo in
milim podnebjem in katera je
bila V starem in srednjem We
ku nekaka obljubljena dezela
takozvanim barbarskim naro-
dom, je danes razsulu. Puhla
fasisticna oSabnost, katera je
napihovala memo javno in poll
ticno zivljenje, Sc je razblinila.
Ostala je samo Sc praznota.
Da, JAZZ Sc. dobro spominjam
Italije. Potikal sem Sc tam leta
1929 skoro pet tednov. Nikdar
ne pozabim tistih crnih sraic,
pasjih bicev ter tistih cudnih
pokrival S GRIMM tasli, kateri
so jim viseli in mahali prav do
ust. Pc vseh stenah in javnih
prostorih - velikanske besede
junaSki napisi - kot da bi
samo BESIDE reSevale in delale
zgodovino.
"Molci, ubogaj, bori SCI" so
klicali ii junaski napisi. In be-
daki so verovali, da je vojna res
nebeska gloria, ter da je bolje
ziveti en- dan kot junak, kot pa
sto let kot jayne. To jim je
pravil dan "a dnem veliki duce,
kateri je sedel v palace Vene-
cia, duce, XII je bill najvecje
slamnato strasilo dvajsetega sto-
letja.
Junija meseca 1910 je pognal
duce svoje crne legije v pozar
vojne. Vedoc kvaliteto svoje ar
made mi pozabil Guadalajaro)
lie cakal ma firerjevo zmago v
Franciji. z unicenjem angleSke
armada ma kontinentu ter z raz-
sulom francoske moci je bill 81
guren uspeha. Zastonj je bio
svarilo il Washingtona in Lon
dona. Nadaljevati to zalostno
zgodbo "italijanskega j~unastva"
je nepotrebno. Napisali so ga
nasi partizani V crni gori in Slo-
veniji, Rusi pr Voronezu ter
Stalingradu, in posebno pa Sc
Grki, kateri SO Italijane zbili
skoro do Jadranskega moria.
Danes je Italia, sal tisti MEN
del, XII je pod kontrolo zavez-
nikov, ne samo f~izicno, ampak
dusevno in moralno mrtvilo.
Izmed vseh Hitlerjevih zavez-
nikov je Italia ma najnizji stop
Mi politicnega in moralnega
bankrota. Fasizem, kateri je v
Mi V dvajsetih letih Sc boil "a
strupil re tako gnilo notranjo
sestavo drzave, je zapustil oh
svojem razsulu taksno praznoto
nemoci in korupcije, da DO te-
zko ustvariti novo vero v nekai
boljsega. Kot pravi Allen Ray
mond v svojem clanku Bank
rupt Italy is Capable of Any
thing. v Sat. Eve. Post, "The
really tragic plight of this coun-
try, Italy, may be difficult to
understand back home. Italy is
defeated morally as well as
physically. Italy is defeated =
divided = bankrupt helpless.
Italy is flat on her back and
without energy enough to
scream. She whimpers for help.
The people of this country
have been kicked around for
twenty years by the strong-arm
gangsters of the fascist party.
They have been kicked around
by the Germans. They have
been kicked around by the AL
lies. They can't feed them
selves. They can't govern them
selves.
This country is profoundly
corrupt. 1t is trained in corrup-
ton and stepped in corruption,
from the lowest functionaries to
the highest. Except for the Pope
in Vatican, practically every
body in everything in Italy is
for sale to the highest bidder.
The daughters of Italy, by the
hundreds of thousands have
turned to prostitution as the
only way they can eat. Thiev-
cry, big and little, is so ram
pant that no movable possession
can be put down with any hope
that it will be safe from
thieves"
To je slika italijanskega dr.