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...should answer [the Duce's] billet-doux, Deanna, you might ask him why he's more tender of American than of his own youth. . . . What leader started the business of war for the young anyway...
Last April Correspondent John T. Whitaker reported that in the spring of 1939 Mussolini suffered a stroke. He was confined to his bed for five weeks, his face partially paralyzed and his left eye affected. Since then, said trustworthy Correspondent Whitaker's trustworthy sources, the Duce has suffered from paranoia. Paranoia is often characterized by delusions of grandeur...
...Fascist Militia since 1939 and for seven years before that was Secretary General of the Fascist Party. By removing him from his post (nothing was said about what had become of him) Benito Mussolini got rid of one more power which might threaten the power of the Duce. Before Starace, many an old-time Fascist had been relegated to oblivion or death: Hero Italo Balbo to the Governor Generalship of Libya and then to mysterious death in his airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece Roberto Farinacci to an unknown fate in Albania. Each of these...
...last week's deal the cream of the Dalmatian coast went, not to puppet Croatia, but to the Kingdom of Italy. Benito Mussolini also knows that Napoleonic kingdoms are not always permanent. For the present, however, Il Duce and his King Aimone will have the loyalty of Poglavnik Pavelitch, who plotted the assassination of King Alexander for Il Duce, then hid out in Italy for seven years until he could help in the assassination of Yugoslavia. Serbian komitajis had a better idea: in their list of men marked for assassination, Pavelitch's name led all the rest...
While thousands of internationally-minded American citizens back in 1925 were voicing their admiration of "what that fellow Mussolini has done for Italy," a little grey-bearded professor named Gaetano Salvemini was fighting a personal duel with II Duce and warning the world of Fascism...