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70/ [[vertical note in left margin in red]] Mussolini declares war on France [[/vertical note in left margin in red]] [[red underline]] Mussolini this morning has declared war on France [[/red underline]] and Britain. His [[red underline]] speech in yelling [[/red underline]] tune was [[red underline]] conveyed here by Radio [[/red underline]] and we heard distinctly the wild applause of the multitude surrounding him in Rome. - He violently attacks [[red underline]] France and Britain [[/red underline]] and denounces them as plutocrat countries. Thus far [[red underline]] Egypt is left alone [[/red underline]] as [[strikethrough]] well [[/strikethrough]] neutral, also [[red underline]] Greece, Jugoslavia [[/red underline]] and Switzerland. Probably just as long as it pays Mussolini to keep them so. [[red underline]] Mussolini also want Chibouti, [[/red underline]] now belonging to France. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] King of Norway left. [[/vertical note in left margin in red]] This morning the [[red underline]] King of Norway has left his country [[/red underline]] and reached England. S.S. [[red underline]] Manhattan [[/red underline]] (U.S) arrived in New York with about [[red underline]] 2500 passengers mostly Americans [[/red underline]] who were in Europe. Many of them had to pass over Sweden, Norway, Germany & Italy to reach [[red underline]] Lisbon [[/red underline]] for departure with the Am. Steamer (Manhattan). Musolini and Italy have a record of playing dirty tricks in their alliances, as heretofore for and against the Germans and Austrians in the former war. [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] who is now with the children in Washington, returns [[strikethrough]] tonigh [[/strikethrough]] this evening. [[end page]] [[start page]] 71/ While waiting for her return and listening to the Radio, I was unexpectedly informed by the Radio announcer that [[red underline]] Musolini was to make a broadcast from Rome [[/red underline]] telling the World that Italy was joining the Nazi Army in her battle with France and England. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] Mussolini broadcast [[/vertical note in left margin in red]] In a [[red underline]] shrieking thundering voice in Italian, which was translated in English as fast as [[/red underline]] he spoke. - This had been expected since quite soom time. - Wild acclamations on the part of the many thousands of men who listened to him in Rome repeatedly followed his sentences. - He [[red underline]] designated France and England as "plutochratic [[/red underline]] countries." etc. etc. All this makes the task of the French and British armies so much the more difficult. Celine returned here about 11 A.M with young Roll and the daughter of Wyman [[underline]] June 11. [[/underline]] The papers are full with comments on the Mussolini speech and the new problems arising thereby. - [[red underline]] Mussolini is joining the Germans [[/red underline]] for the conquest of [[red underline]] France. [[/red underline]] That man who came to make my portrait as one of the Alumni of Pittsburgh wants $20.00 for 2 copies thereof, which I refused. - Wrote about this to the U. of Pittsburgh. [[strikethrough]] Yesterday [[/strikethrough]] This evening [[red underline]] Celine returned from Washington, [[/red underline]] where she had gone with Nina to be present at the [[red underline]] graduation [[/red underline]] exercises of [[strikethrough]] Nin [[/strikethrough]] Nina's daughter [[red underline]] Ninette [[/red underline]]