in Italy.  The Itlaians will grumble, as they have already grumbled, but they  
will remain passive.  But I am also convinced, from all that I hear from those  
coming from that country, that the said population would not resist threee   
weeks against the daily regime which the Germans have inflicted on the English  
for the past six months.  There would be such panic in Italy that it would   
sweep aside the present regime and would ask peace of the English.  In my  
opinion this would have inclalculable repercussions in Germany because these  
two gangster regimes are holding each other up.  It is this that Hitler fears  
above all.  I know that it is cruel to have this charming people suffer a  
bad quarter hour, which people you love as I do; but it committed a mortal  
sin when it followed bandit no, 2, Mussolini, and it needs to rid itself of  
him.  We must win the war and there is, unfortunately, no means to do it   
                      without victims.                      
 
                                                            
 
 
You will pardon me for taking up so much of your time but I desire to   
let you know the actual feelings in France, and to tell you with what hope,  
with what anxiety we all have our eyes turned towards the United States,with  
what resolution we are ready to support still the suffering provided that   
liberty be returned to our Fatherland.  Because we have lost this liberty  
    despite the noble efforts of Marshal Petain, whom we