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Benito Mussolini's wife & daughter, granted amnesty by the new Italian Republic, were now technically on the loose. But they were in no hurry to go anywhere. Daughter Edda Mussolini Ciano, who had grown fond of her "haven" on Lipari Island, hoped for a passport to Argentina, meanwhile talked about moving to Lucca instead of to her husband's native Leghorn, which might prove to be "too hot for the Ciano family." Donna Rachele Mussolini, Benito's widow, stayed right where she was-on the island of Ischia...
...widow of Italy's late Foreign Minister was chafing in internment on Lipari Island, one of her late father's favorite penitentiaries. When correspondents found her there last week, she pouted and protested: "I had the misfortune to be born in politics . . . but I have never been mixed up in politics." The Countess eased her light blue slacks, glanced at the bright blue sea. "I was pro-German at the beginning . . . [but] I never worked for the Germans." She puffed vigorously on an American cigaret. "I want to live the rest of my days on a small island...
...Mussolini, widow of the Jate Count Galeazzo Ciano. From her Swiss refuge (a nerve hospital), she had watched the collapse of Fascism. Now she had to go home. In a closed car the Countess was driven by night across the Italian frontier, flown to Rome, then shipped to the Lipari Islands, once one of her father's favorite penitentiaries. Only thus could the authorities be sure they could save Edda from her father's fate. On her island she would be confined to an "apartment' until the "final disposition of her case...
...Tyrrhenian Sea the U.S. Navy captured the storied Lipari (or Aeolian) Islands. A volcanic cluster where the Greeks housed their god of the winds and the Black. Shirts jailed their political enemies, the Lipari in Allied hands help assure Allied dominance of the waters triangulated by Sicily, Sardinia and lower Italy...
Carlo, a history professor at University of Florence, was banished to Italy's Lipari Islands in 1926, escaped to Paris in 1929, joined his brother who had also found Italy too hot for him. Carlo's anti-Fascist activities caused an order for his banishment from France in 1931, but he obtained successive prolongations of his residence permit, and when Leon Blum's Popular Front Government came into office his haven seemed secure...