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Out of Belgian radio loudspeakers last week came these shocking words, broadcast from Italy: “Just as there were no atrocities in Belgium in 1914. so the reports about Italians committing atrocities in Ethiopia today are unfounded.” Inasmuch as Belgium’s very soul is rooted in the idea of German Wartime atrocities, the Belgian Government promptly instructed its Ambassador to Italy to ask the Italian Government for the exact text of the broadcast, as a preliminary to a protest.
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