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...hour had come when the truth was more useful than propaganda. With his back to the Alps, Benito Mussolini last week ladled out the truth. He did it sparingly, and he mixed it with apologies and name-calling.* But one of the greatest strutters on the world's stage at last came down to earth...
...years Benito Mussolini roared grandiose nonsense from his balcony. He rubbed snow on his bare chest for photographers. To his superstitious peasants he proclaimed that war was the natural state of a healthy nation. Last week, in a small voice. Il Duce urged his people: "Tener Duro" ("Hold firm...
...reason for the sudden aerial onslaught on Italy was to blast supply bases and communication lines that serve Erwin Rommel, as Montgomery in Egypt started his attack (see p. 26). But probably far more effective was the shaking it gave to Italian nerves under Benito's waning moon...
Then, on June 11, 1940, came the first air raid. It was little more than a token to show Malta that Benito Mussolini was now in the war. Maltese looked up from their stony little cotton, wheat and potato fields. Ironworkers, coppersmiths and lacemakers stuck their heads out of their shops for a glimpse of Mussolini's planes. From emplacements in Malta's limestone rock around the Grand Harbour and His Majesty's Dockyards, anti-aircraft guns boomed. A house front was damaged, a few civilians hurt, but most of the bombs fell...
...marchers so successfully that Margaret M. Wheatley burst into tears. Emily Bradley Saltonstall, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor, enlisted in the WAVES in Boston as an apprentice seaman. Alfred Ryder, 26, long the "Sammy" of Radio's The Goldbergs, went off to Camp Upton as a private. Benito Mussolini, who used to pose at the controls of a plane, took an experimental, electric-drive car for a trial...