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...more lurid and anatomical.") Generally, however, the Ciano diary is a long-winded loser's lament, repeating all the familiar whines (Italy did not want war; Germany betrayed Italy and never told the Italians anything). Its most sensational charge-that Prime Minister Chamberlain submitted a speech to the Duce before delivering it to the House of Commons-will need more documentation than the say-so of the Duce's discredited...
...Rachele Mussolini, plump widow of the Duce. She was caught, along with her two youngest children, a jugful of jewelry and $120,000 cash, by partisans as she sought refuge in Switzerland. The Italians turned her over, as a harmless matron, to U.S. custody...
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...
...partisans gave him short shrift. He was bluntly informed that he had been condemned to death. After a brief "trial," the 16 other Fascists in the Duce's party were also adjudged guilty. The Duce's last words as he faced the firing squad were...
Shortly before noon today the bodies were removed to a mortuary. Mussolini and Petacci were dragged like sacks of grain into a high-walled courtyard. Men, women & children followed, climbing the brick wall and peering over at the shapeless pulp that was the Duce's face. The people's temper, as though satiated, seemed calmer now. "At last, it is finished," said one quietly. "He was punished...