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ago also referred to the new landings
and said that considerable contingents
of Americans were landing.
Messages from Switzerland speak of
landings in the Tyrrhenian Sea, Leghorn,
Gaeta, Civitavecchia and also landings
on Sardinia and Genoa but it remains
to be seen what truth there is in these
reports. The phone communications
between Rome and Berlin are impossible.
Italian soldiers were asked by Germany
to continue fighting. Germany says
that Badoglio's steps did not come
as a surprise. Roosevelt's speech was
chiefly for domestic purposes and he
said that the armistice was a great
victory for the Allied nations and also
for Italy. This armistice however does
not mean the end of the war in the
Mediterranean as the Germans are
still to be driven out of Italy and France
and the other countries. When this war
ends he said we shall not be in a happy
mood but of a grim determination.
General Wilson has broadcast to the
people of Greece and Yugoslavia
and also to the Italians there that they
must stop to treat the people badly.
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