GALEAZZO CIANO

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

A great hullabaloo is being made in Germany over the people’s car – seven million are to be built and almost ever family will have its own little car.

The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.

The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

The idea of joining the Germans attracts him [Mussolini], but I must fight to the end Otherwise it mean the ruin of the country, the ruin of Fascism and the ruin of Il Duce himself.

The King [Victor Emmanuel III] remains as hostile towards him as ever and tries to make out that he is some kind of psycho-physiological degenerate.

There is really no point in exposing equipment and men to the not inconsiderable wear and tear of a three thousand kilometres’ flight, in order to give the rabble of a second-class country like Argentina a chance to insult us.

Of all the countries in which I have lived Argentina is certainly the one I loved least – indeed I felt a profound contempt for it.

Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.

The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

A great hullabaloo is being made in Germany over the people’s car – seven million are to be built and almost ever family will have its own little car.

There is really no point in exposing equipment and men to the not inconsiderable wear and tear of a three thousand kilometres’ flight, in order to give the rabble of a second-class country like Argentina a chance to insult us.

Of all the countries in which I have lived Argentina is certainly the one I loved least – indeed I felt a profound contempt for it.

The King [Victor Emmanuel III] remains as hostile towards him as ever and tries to make out that he is some kind of psycho-physiological degenerate.

The idea of joining the Germans attracts him [Mussolini], but I must fight to the end Otherwise it mean the ruin of the country, the ruin of Fascism and the ruin of Il Duce himself.

Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.

The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.