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That morning (Dec. 11, 1941) Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini had done some routine ranting, had roared some routine lies, had returned to their routine aggression-after declaring...
...Benito Mussolini's punch-drunk Navy it was a bitter week. Not 24 hours earlier the Admiralty had announced the torpedoing of still another Italian cruiser by a British submarine. London estimated that the Italians have left only ten or eleven of the 43 cruisers built or building at the war's beginning. Cracked New York Timesman David Anderson from London: "Some persons here are wondering now if the Italians have anything afloat that is a match for a British destroyer...
Italy had amassed all the necessary ingredients for a first-class revolution. The war effort continued apathetic, ineffectual and, to many Italians, completely senseless. Favored Fascist bigwigs prospered from wartime grafts. Benito Mussolini lost additional face as Nazi officials took over key posts in vital ministries. Inflation increased. The tightened food-rationing system reeled along under the weight of flagrant violations. Military morale, ever feeble, ebbed to a new low as the British Army pushed into Libya...
...Italy's vaunted military strength (Benito Mussolini boasted that 8,000,000 bayonets would prosecute Italian claims): at no time have there been more than 2,500,000 men in the armed forces, and more than that number could not be equipped...
...Duce jutted his jaw and was silent. Three times the crowd gave the usual ovation, then left Benito Mussolini free to ponder whether Fascism was likely to pass on, pass out, or pass away...