Benito Mussolini

“ The Tripartite has grown into a military alliance that amasses around its flags 250 million men resolute for victory in everything.
Neither the Axis nor Japan desired the expansion of this conflict. One man, a single man, an authentic democratic despot, through an infinite series of provocations, deceiving with a supreme fraud the very populations of his own county, has desired this war and has prepared it day by day with diabolical pertinacity. ”

“ I say, and you all feel, that it is a privilege to fight with them. Today the Tripartite Alliance, in the fullness of its moral and material means, is a powerful instrument for war and the secure guarantee of victory; tomorrow it will be the creator and organizer of a just peace between the peoples. ”