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Last week, as Benito Mussolini addressed his obediently enthusiastic Chamber of Fasces and Corporations in Rome, the people of Italy herded around their radios had every reason to be slightly giddy. For Italy's most ruinous year had become, in dizzy oratorical retrospect, a vista of conquest...
...This war," wrote Benito Mussolini last week, "has now assumed the character of a war between two worlds...
Lots of people write nice letters to eye-some, earsome, young Cinemactress Deanna Durbin, some of them pretty big shots too. But last week she got fan mail from the biggest shot south of Berchtesgaden. Benito Mussolini's own Popolo d'Italia wrote and published a tender little note...
...Friends. Last week Benito Mussolini purged the last of his Big Black Shirts: Achille Starace, who had been Chief of Staff of the Fascist Militia since 1939 and for seven years before that was Secretary General of the Fascist Party. By removing him from his post (nothing was said about what had become of him) Benito Mussolini got rid of one more power which might threaten the power of the Duce. Before Starace, many an old-time Fascist had been relegated to oblivion or death: Hero Italo Balbo to the Governor Generalship of Libya and then to mysterious death...
...their Pooh-Bahs and generals, doubtless talked of new worlds to conquer: the Near East and Africa lay before them. With the fall of Crete and the alignment of France with Germany, the Mediterranean had become no longer safe for Great Britain. But it was a hollow hour for Benito Mussolini. His archenemy Britain had been driven from Mare Nostrum at last. Now Mare Nostrum was German...