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Telling his people that no war lasts forever, Hitler reminded them that after four years of fighting the Reich had not lost "one square kilometer of soil." The year ended had been one of heavy reverses: the Russian offensive, the loss of Africa, the downfall of Il Duce, the rise of Tito; the year beginning, he grimly warned, would see the war's crisis. He said that German preparation to meet the Allied invasion had gone forward on "a scale that will probably surprise our enemies more than their landing will surprise us." The Russian front, he admitted...
...Standard. He had been disclosed as "Cassius," author of last month's Tory-scorching bestseller, The Trial of Mussolini, in which the defense summons Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Sir Samuel Hoare, Viscount Simon and many another resounding name as character witnesses for the Duce. In 1940 Foot and two other Standard men, using the name of "Cato," wrote Guilty Men, an indictment of prewar appeasers, blunderers and incompetents, including several attacked again by Cassius. That time, Beaverbrook had carefully looked the other...
Badoglio said that it was all Mussolini's fault. He said that the Duce explained plunging Italy into the war with the words: "In September everything will be over, and I need some thousands of dead to be able to sit at the peace table as a belligerent." Badoglio said that Mussolini had not consulted anyone before writing Hitler at the end of May 1940 that he would declare war by June...
...last meetings in Addis Ababa . . . in 1936. 'Those were better times for Italy,' he said. . . . 'Do you remember Termaber Pass,' he asked eagerly, 'and those three days we waited while . . . the Negus [Haile Selassie] fled?' " And as a soldier Badoglio scorned Il Duce's folly in dispersing his army so that only twelve divisions were in Italy when the invasion came...
...courage at evidence that the few were being shuttled to look like many. Partisan bands began to take shape in the foothills of the Alps. Against them, the Germans offered 42 times the normal pay of an Italian soldier to those who would sign up under Hitler and the Duce. There were few takers...