Italian Foreign Minister on joining anti Komintern pact, 6 November 1937
Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, on Italy's joining the anti Komintern pact, 6 November 1937
Source : W. Michalka (Hg.), Deutsche Geschichte 1933-45, (Frankfurt, 1993), p.142.
We have signed the pact this morning. The atmosphere was distinctly different from usual diplomatic ceremonies. Three nations pledged to join on a common path that might perhaps lead to war. This is a necessary war, if one wishes to rupture this vessel that suffocates the energies and aspirations of young people. After the signatures we went to the Duce. I have rarely seen him that happy. We are not any longer in the situation of 1935. Italy has broken through the isolation. It is at the centre of the most powerful political-military combination had ever existed….
