 More importantly, Victor Emmanuel stated that as the king of Italy he was supreme commander-in-chief, and he wanted to be involved in any "supreme decisions", which in effect was claiming a right to veto any decision Mussolini might make about going to war.On 25 August, Ciano wrote in his diary that he informed a "furiously warlike" Mussolini that the king was against Italy going to war in 1939, forcing "Il Duce" to concede that Italy would have to declare neutrality.Unlike in Germany where officers from 1934 onward took an oath of personal loyalty to Hitler, officers of the "Regio Esercito", "Regina Marina" and the "Regia Aeronautica" all took their oaths of loyalty to the king, not Mussolini.