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Winston Churchill, vacationing at Lake Como, surprised the Milanese by visiting the grave of Mussolini, whom he had often delighted to abuse...
Before the hour expired, the Duce, who in his fustian prime had bellowed to his followers, "If I retreat, kill me!" was in headlong flight. At 9 p.m. he reached Como near the Swiss border. At 2 a.m. Thursday he sent an envoy to ask Swiss authorities to grant asylum to his wife, Donna Rachele, and their children. The Swiss emphatically declined. About 6 a.m. Mussolini sneaked northward presumably in the hope of reaching Germany. According to one report he joined a German truck convoy trying unsuccessfully to disguise himself in a German officer's overcoat. He was spotted...
Suddenly the fight went out of the Nazi armies in Italy. Their lines had collapsed. Allied armor, spearing through masses of bewildered Germans, spread out over northern Italy, reached toward the Swiss border near Como, cut retreat lines and started the final...
Partisans Up. There was little resistance. Fortified positions were found abandoned. Yugoslav Partisans captured Trieste. Everywhere Italian partisan units emerged from hiding. At Milan, Genoa and many another place they forced the surrender of German garrisons before Allied troops arrived. Near Como they caught and shot Benito Mussolini (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Romanesque Baptistery, dating from 1153, containing an ornate 13th-Century pulpit by Niccola Pisano, an octagonal font built in 1246 by Bigarelli of Como...