Atlanta Daily World

LONDON.-(By Rudolph Dunbar for ANP)-No matter whether Mussolini wins or loses in Ethiopia, Italy faces ruin and will be at the end so completely pauperized that for at least 20 years her export trade will be negligible.

So said Giovanni Giglio, for 17 years Rome correspondent of one of the biggest London dailies, who reached here last week after being expelled by Mussolini.

Asserting he was free at last to tell the true story of what is going on in the land of the Black Shirts, Giglio declared, "Let me first of all shatter the illusion prevalent in Britain that the Ethiopian war is popular in Italy. It is not. Italians, taken as a whole, are tired, dissatisfied, hostile toward the Fascist regime which led them into an unwanted war."

The correspondent told of Il Duce's extensive espionage system, of how his telephone was tapped, letters opened and cables examined and of how no toleration of criticism of Mussolini was permitted. According to the reporter, wives wishing to get rid of husbands had only to tell officials their mates were speaking disrespectfully of the dictator and the husbands would be exiled to sun-scorched islands in the Mediterranean.

"Even those who approved of the war in the first place as a means to an end are realizing now that the price Italy's paying and will go on paying, has made the adventure worthless. They realize that if the whole of Ethiopia is conquered, there will not be enough money to exploit its doubtful resources," Giglio said.