ABSTRACT
The aim we have in mind is the development and exploitation of the stillcountless resources of these two continents – and especially Africa – and of bringing these areas more closely into the orbit of world civilization. Italy is in a position to accomplish this task. Her location in the Mediterranean, which is resuming its historic role of uniting the East to the West, confers this right and binds Italy to this obligation. We do not intend to claim either monopolies or privileges, but we do claim and we intend to make clear that those countries who arrived ahead of us, those who are satisfied and those who are conservative, should not try to block on every side the spiritual, political and economic expansion of Fascist Italy . . .
