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Fortnight ago Cantachiaro dug its spurs into a Benito Mussolini speech, delivered in Milan. Headlines and acetous comments derided the ex-Duce as "delirious ... a Nero who fiddled all Italy into ashes," and his followers as "scum in an advanced state of decay." Explained Editor Monicelli: "We offer the complete text [of Mussolini's speech] to our readers with the wish that . . . the last remains of this tragic buffoonery . . . should be swept away...
...Rome an astonished carabinieri officer blinked, gasped, began to count. Never had he seen so many pregnant romanas trudging back from visits to the countryside. He remembered Mussolini and his medals for motherhood. But Il Duce was gone. Could it be that his works were marching on? The suspicious carabiniere decided to investigate, uncovered a widespread fraud. In fitted containers under their clothes the "pregnant" women were delivering olive oil to Rome's black-market buyers. A few days of prenatal checkups yielded ten tons...
...voice went on: ". . . The Führer suffered no injuries except light burns and bruises. . . . He resumed work and, as scheduled, received the Duce. . . . A short time after, Reich Marshal Goring arrived. . . ." Wounded with Hitler were 12 of his military advisers, some of them seriously. That...
...true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler. Mussolini astonished Welles by seeming inert, ponderous and static. His close-cropped hair was snow white. In repose, his face fell in rolls of flesh. When the Duce talked, he kept his eyes shut save for moments when he remembered his reputation for staring "dynamically...
...seriously. Italians do not believe in executions, least of all for political reasons, and Ciano was, after all, Mussolini's son-in-law and former Foreign Minister. But the priests came and the prisoners realized that they were to die. Ciano agreed to sign a petition to the Duce. A courier flew to Lake Garda, where Mussolini was staying. But that night he was not there, nor did he appear until late next morning, after the five had been executed...