Having now escaped death… I am more than ever convinced that the great cause which I serve will be brought through its present perils and that everything can be brought to a good end.” Mussolini, carried away as so often before by Hitler’s words, says Schmidt, agreed. “Our position is bad [he said], one might almost say desperate, but what has happened here today gives me new courage. After [this] miracle it is inconceivable that our cause should meet with misfortune.” The two dictators, with their entourages, then went to tea,
