ITALY: Miserable Austria!

Anyone who has ever read an editorial by Signor Mario Carli, personal friend of Signor Benito Mussolini and editor of the arch-Fascist daily L'Impero ("Orders is Orders"), will recognize his characteristic style in the following comment on a football game played last week in Vienna:

"Italy will argue with Austria no more! Austria is nothing but a miserable spittoon. If we speak to her again it will be with bombs!"

In other words the Italian team, champions of all Italy, had been defeated 3-0 by Austrians who are now the champions of Central Europe. After "spittoon" came epithets so...

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