Word: benito
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Fascist Bargains. On Aug. 15, 1940, Franco wrote Benito Mussolini: "Since the beginning of the present conflict it has been our intention to make the greatest efforts in our preparations in order to enter the foreign war at a favorable opportunity...
...made that era vanished with it. Benito Mussolini, Italy's self-styled Man of Destiny, died ignominiously and was hung by his heels like a slaughtered pig alongside the body of his mistress. Adolf Hitler, Man of 1938, died by his own hand, also with his mistress, in the rubble of Berlin. Or did he die? Dead or alive, it did not much matter; Adolf Hitler, the force, had perished...
Home to Jail. In a very different mood was another prominent D.P., haggard Countess Edda Ciano, daughter of the late Benito 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...
History's shabby discards and their dejected heirs were cashing in on the fact and dialectic of disaster. Diaries, articles and book excerpts by Paul Reynaud, Maurice Gamelin, Benito Mussolini, Hermann Göring and Galeazzo Ciano had already appeared in hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, and there were more to come...
Donna Rachele Mussolini, Benito's 56-year-old widow, now at the Terni internment camp under British protection, confessed that she wanted to bring up her children in the U.S. and might make some money lecturing: "We should have gone to America when we first got married. We planned to do it. . . . But then Mussolini changed his mind...