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...Rome had a subway tunnel that stretched, Romans said, "from nowhere to nowhere." It began under the Colosseum and meandered five miles southwest to the site of a projected Fascist fairground outside the city. Last year the city fathers decided to complete the project by extending it 1¼ miles, from the Colosseum to the central railway station...
Died. The Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, 33, erratic blonde friend of Adolf Hitler (who called her "the perfect example of Nordic beauty)," sister-in-law of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, fourth daughter of Baron Redesdale of Redesdale;* reportedly of meningitis; in Oban, Scotland. Unity, suffering from a mysteriously inflicted bullet wound, was sent home from Germany at Christmas 1939, in a special train ordered by Hitler...
...journalism has always been nonobjective, cynical and, before the war, appallingly venal. Several influential national dailies (la grande presse) were potent enough to topple governments. But the French coined the ugly term la presse pourrie ("rotten press") for those that sold out to big business or to Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Balkan countries...
...London, Sir Oswald Mosley led some 300 Fascist followers through six miles of streets in a May Day parade...
Save Franco. When Hitler needed Spain's military help, Franco pleaded unreadiness. Hitler reminded the little Caudillo that without Hitler and Mussolini there would have been no Fascist Spain. Franco placated the Führer by refueling Nazi submarines with U.S. oil, giving German spies a free hand, and turning over the Spanish press to Axis propagandists. (Hitler had kept an itemized bill for his aid to Franco during the Spanish Civil War; Franco made payments on it all through World War II with U.S. food and oil and Spanish strategic materials which, he told the Allies, Hitler would...