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...conquest of larger, blockade-free Sicily, next logical step on the way to Rome, will be no pushover, even though Allied bombers based on Pantelleria and nearby Lampedusa can have an umbrella of fighter escorts. Early this week Flying Fortresses plastered three of Sicily's major airdromes, while British Fleet units moved in closer to the Sicilian mainland...
...Happy Birthday to You." These facts, a warning to the overoptimistic among the Allies and some scant balm for the crushed Italian ego, did not make the conquest of the first territory within metropolitan Italy any more palatable to the war-sick, disorganized and frustrated Italian people. Mussolini waited 24 hours before officially announcing the capitulation, claiming that Italian airmen were having "great successes" and finally that Pantelleria had been turned into a "gigantic volcano." Italians did not miss the fact that the defeat came exactly three years and one day after Mussolini had led Italy into war against France...
...weight and intensity of aerial at tacks on the harbors, airfields, artillery positions and railways of Sicily and Sardinia steadily increased (see p. 55). Italian and German resistance, particularly in the air, steadily decreased. But softening by air is not conquest. At the weekend, Americans struck at Italy's chief weapon of Mediterranean defense, its navy, with an air attack on three battleships at Spezia. Results: uncertain...
Rebellious Albania might be the least of Il Duce's worries, but it was the most chronic. A people whose "nationalism does not whisper because their country is small," the Albanians had never accepted the Fascist conquest of 1939. Now patriot resistance, fanned by new hope, was mounting. It could be measured by Rome's frantic hunt for a popular puppet leader. For Prime Minister in Tirana Mussolini chose tricky, turncoat Ekrem Libohova, once ex-King Zog's Foreign Minister. This was Albania's fourth "government...
...film is both education and propaganda. In one hammering hour, it not only sketches recent world history from the Mukden Incident to the conquest of Ethiopia; it also makes the first impressive attempt in a U.S. film to present the theory and practice of Fascism. The picture works under several handicaps: 1) the broad contents of its story are wearily familiar to many; 2) the territory which must be covered is vast and intricate; 3) the teaching method-that of the illustrated lecture-means that the enormous power possible in screen images is dominated and reduced by words. But against...