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...years Benito Mussolini roared grandiose nonsense from his balcony. He rubbed snow on his bare chest for photographers. To his superstitious peasants he proclaimed that war was the natural state of a healthy nation. Last week, in a small voice. Il Duce urged his people: "Tener Duro" ("Hold firm...
...polyglot Cairo chattered with rumors, hissed with opportunistic plans. Toasts to the Axis rang behind closed doors. Rich Italian matrons of Alexandria loaded themselves with cakes and bonbons, piled into cars and rushed off to suburban Mex, which they understood had already been entered by triumphant troops of II Duce. Mex was full of grinning Australians. The matrons jettisoned their gifts and went home...
...Duce had expected to celebrate his 59th birthday in Egypt. When Tobruk fell he rushed through the air to North Africa to lead the victorious march into Alexandria. On the way. R.A.F. pilots knocked down a convoying plane, killing his personal chef and personal barber. Loss of the barber was not so bad, since II Duce is as bald as a monkey's bottom, but loss of the cook was dismal. Then Rommel was stopped, and there could be no triumphal procession...
...Duce hung around for a while, finally returned to Rome. There, last week, the usual greetings arrived from Adolf Hitler: "On the occasion of your birthday . . . Duce." It did seem that Herr Hitler might quit reminding him of it. In Rome the subject was not mentioned...
...accounts of difficulties in Yugoslavia were open to suspicion, however, because such stories provided a convenient excuse to Italy's Nazi masters for not sending more Italian divisions to the Russian front. And quite a few of those difficulties could be traced to Italian ways: some of Il Duce's quartermasters were selling arms to their Yugoslav foes...