In a tour of the Italian alpine regions he announced to his entourage that "the New Europe ... could not have more than four or five large states; the small ones have no further raison d'être and have to disappear".
在一次前往阿爾卑斯山的路途中，墨索里尼向他的隨員說道：「新的歐洲.......不能有超過四個或五個大型國家；那些小型國家將沒有繼續存在的理由，因此必須消失。