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Last week her independence again was threatened-by the successors of the Romans who conquered Greece in 146 B.C. Before World War II Greece accepted a British guarantee of independence, but last week Great Britain was fighting for her own life. So Italy's Benito Mussolini, whose sense of vengeance, of history and of opportunity is as keen as Adolf Hitler's, saw his chance to add a piece to his dreamed of 20th-century Mediterranean Empire...
Adolf Hitler presented Benito Mussolini with a two-car armored train mounting 16 anti-aircraft guns, to protect "a life which is precious not only to the Italian people, but also to the German nation...
Small Pickings. In the South, a neglected Axis partner also visited France. Accompanied by Marshal Pietro Badoglio and a slew of Fascist bigwigs, Benito Mussolini slipped across the Franco-Italian frontier at Piccolo San Bernardo. His inspection was brief because few morsels had been dropped from the Nazi carving board for the eager Duce...
...long, camouflage-dappled touring car Benito Mussolini last week ventured, four days after fighting ceased, into the thin slice of Alpine territory which the French, retreating before the Germans, yielded to his soldiers. It was his first visit to French soil since becoming a dictator 18 years ago. More daring last week -and less lucky-was bronze-bearded Air Marshal Italo Balbo, one of Mussolini's original Quadrumvirate in 1922, "exiled" since 1933 (when he won great publicity for a mass seaplane flight from Rome to Chicago) as Governor and Military Commander of Libya...
...moles and booms would certainly be disastrous and perhaps, over a period of weeks, big shells could smash away the Rock's friable limestone-of which every splinter becomes a missile when a shell explodes-to expose the defenders' guns to ultimate destruction. If that should happen, Benito Mussolini would escape his Mediterranean cage...