Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...play Hitler's game by accusing the Allies of trying to shift the war to the Balkans and the French Ambassador André François-Poncet hurried, home to Paris to confer with his Government. Still the balance of power in Europe seemed to be held by Mussolini...
Friends smuggled Göring into Austria and Karin, though ill, went with him. Hitler was a forgotten captive, writing Mein Kampf in prison, and Göring was near the end of his rope. In Italy he tried to interest Fascists in Naziism, failed to impress Mussolini. Back in Sweden, he took to morphine (which he had probably first used under the stress of wartime flying), was committed to an asylum. The psychiatrist who treated him diagnosed him as an "extremely dangerous asocial hysteric." When he was released, Karin's child by her first husband was not allowed...
...drawn and Europe's two domineering dictators, onetime partners in aggression, who swore less than a year ago a rigid "pact of iron" to stand together in war as well as peace, sat down to talk for two hours and twelve minutes. Then, after a cordial good-by-Mussolini smiling, Hitler pale-they hurried back to their capitals...
...What did they say or decide?" was the question all Europe wanted answered. Tight-lipped Mr. Welles might be the first to know, since he was expected to be received by Mussolini before he sailed...
...several respects the raid was a World War II first: numbers, timing, effect. It coincided perfectly with Adolf Hitler's visit to Benito Mussolini: as much as to say, if we can do this to you boys at Scapa, how about Gibraltar and Alexandria...