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Sprawling over the top of Mt. Titano in northeastern Italy, only 30 miles from Predappio, where Benito Mussolini was born more years ago than he likes to have recalled,* San Marino has 38 square miles of tourist-delighting quaintness and scenery, 14,500 inhabitants who love to give away honorary citizenship to rich Americans. Tradition claims it was founded by a hermit stonecutter named Marinus who gathered about him Christian slaves-the poor and oppressed. Cesare Borgia briefly conquered it in 1503, Cardinal Alberoni overran it for a year in 1739, but always, through centuries of war and political strife...
...ammunition, Italy is quick to fire. The press accused Britain of breaking explicit agreements not to use chemical warfare. The dropping of the phosphorus calling cards was the signal, said Corriere della Sera of Milan, "of a new method of offensive to which fit reply must be given." Benito Mussolini's Popolo d'ltalia echoed ominously with a new version of the Mosaic law: "Two eyes for one, two teeth for one, and so on until they cry, 'Enough...
Before he plunged into a war he thought was already won, Benito Mussolini used to talk of a daredevil air squadron called "I Disperati"-the desperate ones. These brave men, when the proper time came, would climb into the air in planes packed with TNT and dive to their death and to the glory of the fatherland smack into the middle of enemy ships...
Popolo d'Italia, Benito Mussolini's newspaper, made known that now flying with the Italian Air Force in Africa were two officers "whose illustrious name dominates the world scene." These illustrious officers could only be tough Captain Bruno Mussolini, 22, and tough Lieut. Vittorio Mussolini...
Knight of the Bath Benito Mussolini and Knight of the Garter Vittorio Emanuele III were gazetted out of their British Orders of Chivalry last week by King George VI, along with other Italian bigwigs, German smallwigs. There were few German bigwigs to be dropped, since most of these were purged from the royal British rolls in 1915 along with Kaiser Wilhelm...