National Content: Italy
England and France in war with the Germany.
| Source | Front page of the newspaper “La Stampa”. |
| Event referred to | September 1st, 1939: Wehrmacht invasion of Poland. |
| Technological characteristics | Type of file:text Extension: .pdf Dimension of the file: 124 kb |
| Description of the source | This is the front page of the Italian newspaper “La Stampa”. It was found in a private collection. It's written in Italian and its consultation is under the discretion of the owner of the collection. |
| Contextualisation of the source | The first page of the newspaper introduces with great emphasis the beginning of the war. The newspaper was published on Monday September 4th, 1939. It exalts the Italian intervention in to try to maintain the peace. |
| Interpretation of the source | The events are introduced with great details and great abundance of emphatic terms. The personalization of the used language communicates the difficulty of the situation and it's directed to surprise the reader for the great quantity of details. All the present articles in this page have a strong convincing value..0 |
| Original Contents | |
| Original Contents (English Translation) | The war is at the French-German bordersBeginning of the operations on earth, sky and seaThe first bulletin diffused from Paris Europe is at war. The world is hit by the new catastrophe. With the weapons at its feet and with hearts strengthened by the flame of four wars and a Revolution, the Italian people is waiting for the events; and, with them, for the orders coming from the “Duce”. With the same admirable calm of the latest days, Italian men and women knew last evening on the radio that England too, in accordance with France, threw itself down in the irretrievable. Polemic reasons in which England insisted, until the end, trying to justify itself in front of the world, did not move us. Italian people, facing the dramatic oratorical manifestations of the two democratic governments, underlined with sarcasm the entering of Eden in the new English Cabinet. The representative of the “sanctioned sanctionism”. On the contrary, Italian people admires proudly facing the vision of the supreme compactness, perceived through the radio, of the great Germany, compact near its Führer and determined on one hand to defend its right and on the other to subdue the arrogance of the “demo-plutocracies”. Mr. Chamberlain, with his yesterday’s message, wishes to live long enough to see the day when «a rebuilt and free Europe will be re-established». We wish him a long life, but there’s something extremely certain: Italy, however, will not be extraneous to the rebuilding and to the liberation of Europe; and the new Europe will never come from a second Versailles. |