Italy favours a status quo in Europe but not in Africa; yet every assault upon the boundaries in Africa is immediately reflected in Europe. Hitler decided to send troops into the Rhineland only because Mussolini had succeeded in slaughtering several thousand Ethiopians.
Italia es partidaria del statu quo en Europa pero no en Africa; sin embargo, todo ataque a las fronteras africanas se refleja inmediatamente en Europa. Cuando Mussolini logró masacrar a varios miles de etíopes, Hitler resolvió enviar sus tropas a Renania.