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Italy's Communist Party last week introduced to history one of its heroes: the man who shot Benito Mussolini. The tyrannicide turned out to be a tall (6 ft.), sallow, jowly bookkeeper called Walter Audisio. As he mounted the platform before a Communist mass meeting in the ruins of Rome's Basilica of Constantine, clutching a bunch of red carnations, he bit his lips to keep them from trembling...
...have the impression that I was shooting a human being," said Audisio, as he launched into his story, which added little to previous reports of the killing (TIME, May 7, 1945). "When a man faces death, he should have the dignity to meet it. Mussolini only trembled." He answered the charge that he and his fellow Partisans had refused confession and last rites to the Duce: "Was I to worry about Mussolini's soul after all I knew of his life...
...Then Audisio turned to the present: "I've spoken as one whose only desire is to be a good soldier. . . . We Communists, we Partisans should be ashamed that there are still persons in Italy who question the purity of the people's sacrifices. . . . We have no fear of civil...