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Forli is an ancient, undistinguished town in Italy's Romagna region, where Benito Mussolini first preached socialism, and only ten miles from where he was born. Last week it became the first important capture in Italy in more than seven weeks. With it into Allied hands passed the first airfield in the northern Italian plain, soon to be cleared of its battle litter of smashed tanks, dead horses...
...began in Rome one day in June 1924, when an old woman sitting in a doorway and a little boy playing in the street saw a grey Fiat sedan pull up to a curb. Five men jumped out, grabbed Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, leader of the opposition to Benito Mussolini. They wrestled him into the car. It raced away. That was the last that was seen of Matteotti until his body, stabbed 36 times, beaten, partly burned, was found a few days later in a Roman ditch...
...Hitler had been present, and when the grenade-or was it a Teller mine?-exploded under the table, the explosion tore the pants off everyone present. When Benito Mussolini arrived a short time later, Hitler held up the ragged remnants to show that nothing worse had happened to him. Hitler was verging on a nervous breakdown, terrified of further attempts on his life, had -deserted Berchtesgaden for a heavily guarded Rhineland estate...
...Captain Benito Castanedo was expelled from the Mexican Army last week. Facing a firing squad for a drunken, one-man revolt, he was saved at the last moment when his wife and six children appealed to President Manuel Avila Camacho. Their plea: he loved them so much that he had rebelled against a transfer which would have separated him from his family. His sentence commuted to public disgrace, he stood at the center of a circle of troops. An officer plucked off his buttons, tore off his triple bars. Then, to the roll of muffled drums, he marched around...
...Benito Mussolini, according to a report from the New York Times' crack Rome Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, lost 50 pounds in the last nerve-racking month of his dictatorship. Source for the story was an Italian army doctor who treated Mussolini's ulcers, heard him complain: "The Italian people is a superficial people in every way, even in religion. They believe in a saint only when, and to the extent that he answers their prayers. . . . They cover themselves with a varnish that has no depth and leaves no trace...