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...Hitler is today lying dead on a street in Berlin, like Benito Mussolini on a sidewalk in Milan, there will be few people in Germany who will be mourning his passing. The few will be the Nazi Party's fanatic core who still believe in Naziism, and for that belief and for the sake of their own lives fight on. A growing majority of Germans, however, are looking on Adolf Hitler today with bitterness and angry despair as the man who gambled them and their lives away...
Death came last week to Benito Mussolini, from the rifles of an Italian firing squad. As his body lay, reviled and spat upon, in a public square of Milan, it was as though the pent-up jury of a nation was beating upon the senseless clay of the man who had led it to vainglory, shame and disaster. From TIME Correspondent Reg Ingraham came this eyewitness report of one of history's raw spectacles...
...great precedent for the disposal of defeated conquerors had been Napoleon's exile on St. Helena. In the world of 1945, that solution did not appeal to statesmen who pondered the recent career of Benito Mussolini. Shamed and defeated though he was before he fled to haven with the Nazis in northern Italy, he still retained immense standing and kept Fascism alive in millions of Italian hearts...
...Benito Mussolini, who hoped to model his Fascist state on the Roman Empire, emerged from hiding long enough to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Fascist Party, wearily admitted its decline & fall. The Duce lauded fellow Italians who died for his ideal, politely thanked his Nazi hosts for a good...
With sherifian majesty, Sidi Mohamed Ben Moulay Youssef Ben Moulay El-Hassan-Scion of the Prophet, Commander of the Faithful, Sultan of Morocco-singed the mustache of the Dictator of Spain. From the international court in Tangier he dismissed Judge Fernando Malmussi, a Fascist loyd to Benito Mussolini. With equal majesty, he appointed an anti-Fascist Italian to sit with a Briton, a Frenchman and a Spaniard-thereby giving the court an anti-Fascist majority. The new judge was Giovanni Apostoli, recommended by the Bonomi Government with the approval of London and Paris...