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...when troops could smoke with out a bomb blast blowing the cigarets out of their fingers. This was the "prolonged, scientific and shattering" bombing which Winston Churchill had threatened six months before. It had come with a fury such as no spot on earth had experienced before. "Impregnable" Pantelleria, Benito Mussolini's Gibraltar in what he once called Mare Nostrum, was doomed...
...Benito Juarez Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, born July 29, 1883, tasted the grey bread of the poor in his early youth and never forgot it. From his part-time blacksmith father he learned atheism and anarchy. From his schoolteacher mother he learned enough culture to become, first a grade-school teacher, then a journalist. He sold out the policy of his first important newspaper (Avanti), official organ of the Italian Socialist Party, for a reported price of $8,000 a month...
...wild mountains behind Tirana, baggy-trousered clansmen gathered last week, 80,000 strong, knives in their sashes, rifles across their backs. In the villages a restive folk hanged Benito Mussolini in effigy. Schoolboys ran off to the hills to join the guerrillas. Fearful Italian troops clapped hundreds in jail, closed the schools, imposed curfews on the villages. Like the rest of subjugated Europe, the smallest Balkan nation was girding for liberation...
Almost 21 years of Fascism has taught Benito Mussolini to be shrewd as well as ruthless. Last week he toughened the will of his people to fight, by appeals to their patriotism, and by propaganda which made the most of their fierce resentment of British and U.S. bombings. He also sought to reduce the small number pf Italians who might try to cut his throat by independent deals with the Allies...
...Fascists. One of these assumptions, now subject to change has been that all Fascists are pro-Axis. Rats will leave Hitler's ship as they will leave any other. Will Benito Mussolini, or his Fascist Party, stay with Hitler to the last, now that their empire is gone and invasion of Italy is a matter of time? Will Fascist Francisco Franco leave Spain hitched to the failing Axis-or will he try to proceed to the logical end of his recent dealings with the Allies, and declare Fascist Spain in on the victory...