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...week for Benito Mussolini. For months the world had been unmercifully kidding him and his folding armies. He looked very bald and worn and old. But now he had a chance to stand beside his good friend, the world's most fearsome citizen, on the Russian Front. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt had talked for three days. To outdo their enemies Benito listened to Adolf for five...
Just as Franklin Roosevelt had taken his sons Elliott and Franklin Jr. to his meeting, so Benito took his son Vittorio-the aviator who five years ago loved to watch the floral explosion of bombs among the Ethiopians. Reich Marshal Hermann Göring thoughtfully presented Benito with an album of photographs which his second son Bruno, who died in a crash last month, had taken while visiting Germany's Atlantic air bases...
Perhaps professional jealousy sometimes led Benito to gloat somewhat over Adolf -for Benito well knew that in Russia the ghastly train of Nazi conquest was far behind schedule. But Benito could not have taken very much of this neurotic satisfaction-he also knew that his own fate was linked with Adolf's, that the worries of the German High Command were, most pressingly...
When the visit was all over Benito telegraphed Adolf an eloquent thank-you: "The fervid days which we passed together at your headquarters and the visits made to our troops engaged in the war against Bolshevism will remain . . . an uncancelable memory in my mind...
Last fall, in order to save cloth, Italy's Supreme Council of Autarchy (commission on self-sufficiency, headed by self-sufficient Benito Mussolini) urged Italian manhood to get out of long pants, get into shorts. Lest Italian manhood think them effeminate, newspapers insisted shorts were "not only hygienic but masculine and patriotic...