COPY                            
 
                     The Diary of Ciano                     
 
                  THE MADNESS OF MUSSOLINI                  
 
                  HOW ITALY ENTERED IN WAR                  
 
                                                            
 
 
"The Italian people must revenge the death of my husband.  
And if they do not do so - I will do it with my own hands". 
 
                                                            
 
 
This was the last message that Countess Edda Ciano  
       sent to her father Mussolini from Switzerland.       
 
                                                            
 
 
In reality the Italian people have many deaths to re-  
venge and therefore can not think of revenging Count Clano's,  
       however horrible his end seemed to have been.        
 
                                                            
 
 
Countess Ciano further writes to her father: "And do  
not hope that You or Your friends can rob me of my husband's  
diary, because it will be useless to try, as I have made  
seven copies, which are deposited in seven different cities.
 
                                                            
 
 
What kind of a diary is it, that Mussolini would like  
to tear out of his daughter's hands? and which the daughter  
defends so tenaciously? It is the most serious and terrible  
       document of accusation held against Mussolini.       
 
                                                            
 
 
I happen to know quite a good part of that diary, maybe  
the most important part that it contains. Count Ciano read  
it to me himself. I will therefore relate what I know,  
and I must do it right now - and not later. And I ask the  
"Risorgimento Liberale" kindly to publish following statement:  
"It was a strange happening. It was during the first days  
of August last year - about a week after the State Collapse -  
that a certain person looked me up and asked me if I would  
have any difficulty in meeting with Count Ciano. I was  
                       surprised ...