Italian Prime Minister's Speech:
People of Italy. These are trying times, as our foes the Yugoslavians, they cross our borders. They do not seek our aid, nor do they offer us peace. They bring war, and violence, and bloodshed. They bring the fight to our soil. Our homeland. They are attacking not just the NATO forces in Greece and Turkey. They are attacking us. We are one nation, one people. I say to you, remember Rome. Remember the fierce Gauls who assaulted the homes of our ancestors and forebearers. They who killed so many a Roman, they who stood on our soil and took our women and the precious relics we had. I tell you know, Italians, that the same blood that conquered the Gauls and the Spaniards, the same blood that gave us Julius Caesar, runs in us.
We are to be proud of our heritage, people of Italy. From the Piedmont of the Alps, to the bright beaches of Sardinia and Genoa, Venice and Naples. I tell you, this is our land, and to stand with the invader is to stand against Italy. You are surrendering the lands of the Romans, the lands of your parents and grand-parents. I stand against these Yugoslavian communist. I stand against these aggressors. Italy's soldiers, they stand with me. Many Italians, they stand with me today, in fighting the aggressor. They stand, they fight, and they shall drive the Yugoslavians and their allies back from the soil of Trieste. They shall stand, they shall fight. We shall drive the Yugoslavians back from our borders, and we shall keep them from our homes and our cities. Our ports and our culture.
Italy implores you to defend her honor and her lands. I commend the protests of the students and people. It is in the most Republican traditions that you stand for what you believe in. I ask you, who are you brothers and sisters? Who are your parents, you relatives, your ancestors? Are they Soviets? Are they Yugoslavians? Are they Poles, or Czechs, or Germans?
The forebearers of this land were not Soviets, nor Czechs, nor Yugoslavians. They were Italians. They were people who brought us Vergil, Cicero, Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, Scipio Africanus, and Tacitus. Ovid and Augustus are your grandparents. Nero and Claudius, Marcus Aurelius, they are your uncles. They are Italians. Romulus, Numa Pompilius, they are your brothers.
I ask you to defend the lands of your brothers and uncles. Defend the lands that are now being threatened by the Yugoslavians. Defend the lands of your ancestors, like the Horatii at the bridge. I ask you to stand, and fight. I will stand and fight. The Venetians, they will stand and fight. Will you stand and fight, Italians? Will you stand and fight, or will you only bow to the invaders, sons of Aeneas? Fight for Italy, my brothers. Fight!