Post by Diarist on Apr 24, 2017 5:20:54 GMT 1
An appeal from Benito Mussolini to "the students of Europe" was published in Il Popolo d'Italia claiming that Italy wanted peace in Europe but sanctions against the country would lead to a war for which Italy would not be responsible.
Source: Baer, George W. (1976). Test Case : Italy, Ethiopia, and the League of Nations. Leland Stanford Junior University. pp. 210, 213.