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Although the Duce's upper teeth now protruded grotesquely, there was no mistaking his jaw. In death, Mussolini seemed a little man. He wore a Fascist Militia uniform - grey breeches with a narrow black stripe, a green-grey tunic and muddy black riding boots. A bullet had pierced his skull over the left eye and emerged at the back, leaving a hole from which the brains dripped. Mistress Petacci, 2 5 -year-old daughter of an ambitious Roman family, wore a white silk blouse. In her breast were two bullet holes ringed by dark circles of dried blood...
...surged and swayed around the grisly spot. One woman emptied a pistol into the Duce's body. "Five shots!" she screamed. "Five shots for my five murdered sons!" Others cried: "He died too quickly! He should have suffered!" But the hate of many was wordless. They could only spit...
Benito Mussolini, who hoped to model his Fascist state on the Roman Empire, emerged from hiding long enough to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Fascist Party, wearily admitted its decline & fall. The Duce lauded fellow Italians who died for his ideal, politely thanked his Nazi hosts for a good...
Died. Marshal Enrico Caviglia, 82, onetime Italian Minister of War (1919), Senator, World War I hero, holdout against Fascism (in 1943 he was rumored plotting with Marshal Badoglio to oust Mussolini); after long illness; in Finale Marina, Italy. When Italy teetered toward war in 1940, he gave Il Duce some sound, unheeded advice: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary...
...Primers, illustrated with colorful pictures of Fascist soldiers, taught the alphabet with such examples as "F as in fascio." One of the first reading lessons: " 'Duce, Duce,' the voice of the children reaches up into the office where the Duce is working. The Duce hears it and smiles and works for them. Says the Duce: 'Be good children and obey. To obey is your first duty...