the last book I ever read (Iris Origo's A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940, excerpt three)

from A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940 (New York Review Books Classic by Iris Origo:

MAY 13TH

A sinister remark of Mussolini’s, said to an old friend (and official) in Romagna, who was asking him, a little anxiously about the future: “Stai tranquillo, erediteremo ancora.” Inherit what? From whom? One can only inherit from the dead – in the sense that Austria and Czechoslovakia are now dead.