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...proud name, a "jewel city." They saw logic in Mussolini's empire-mongering when Tripolitania produced olives, grapes, barley, wheat, almonds and figs for the homeland. It cost millions of lire to get production started, but the returns were in food, not, as in other of Il Duce's ventures, in crippled and dead soldiers...
...reopen the completed Bob Hope-Dorothy Lamour comedy, They Got Me Covered, for addition of a sequence depicting, perhaps prophetically, the flight of Mussolini from Italy. In preparing the actor for the role, the makeup and wardrobe departments used TIME, Dec. 14, for the most characteristic pose of II Duce...
...Duce's office door...
...Packards are right, the Duce's balcony empire now rests uneasily on a volcano, which, like Vesuvius, may erupt at the next earth tremor...
...unnatural Mussolini's state of war is to the Italian people was evident after bombers had swarmed over Milan. Public outcries and wall inscriptions calling for peace led Il Duce to change governors and purge his Party leadership. When King Vittorio Emanuel and his Queen, aping Britain's monarchs, visited Milan and Turin, haggard, frightened civilians chanted, "We want peace...