Who can deny that when Dictators decide to give a present it is conceived on a big scale? Did not Hitler give Stalin half of Poland? He has now sent to Mussolini an anti-aircraft train equipped with sixteen guns. Formal presentation of the train was made at a station on the coast near Rome by the German General Ritter von Pohl, in the presence of many distinguished German and Italian representatives. The Duce remarked that the gift was "another proof of the indissoluble fraternity of arms binding the great German people to the Italian people in war and peace," and carefully tested all sixteen guns before returning to Rome. It is to be hoped that his gunners will not repeat the mistake made both at Venice and Rome when agitated A,A. batteries fired at what proved to be their own bombers. Or is it? August 1940
