Brooklyn Eagle (February 17, 1943)
Rome says Gayda now talks peace
Stockholm, Sweden (UP) –
Rome dispatches said today that Virginio Gayda, Italy’s No. 1 propagandist, had referred for the first time to the possibility of a compromise peace with Britain and the United States.
Gayda was quoted as saying:
Italy must resist until the moment when England realizes that her debt to America is growing ever larger, her world markets are being destroyed, and communism becomes overwhelming if peace is not made rapidly.
We could then consider a compromise peace with Britain and America, but never with the Soviets.
The real danger for both belligerents is Soviet Russia. Axis capitulation would mean heavy territorial losses and impoverishment for their people.
The single way out is continued resistance, even if it appears completely hopeless, especially resistance on the Axis borders, which would in no case be crossed.