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Flag Over Dérna. On March 12, 1937, Benito Mussolini paused in his tour of Libya at the port of Derna. Set on the edge of a cluster of green hills, rich in water and soil, this little town had come to be called the Pearl of Cyrenaica. A famous local story which Il Duce asked to hear in full was that of William Eaton and Presley O'Bannon. In 1804 the U. S. was very annoyed with the Barbary pirates, who kept nibbling at U. S. trade in the Mediterranean. William Eaton, a Connecticut schoolteacher, and Presley...
...ominous quiet hung over Berlin last week as Germany's round-shouldered little First Soldier slipped out of the city for a mysterious meeting with Benito Mussolini. Berlin officials were more than usually reticent about where the meeting took place and what was discussed, saying only that "full agreement" was reached on Axis war plans. With Adolf Hitler and his Axis partner were high military officers and their Foreign Ministers, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Galeazzo Ciano...
From the meeting of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini last week (see p. 21) welled ominous indications that a new campaign was about to be launched-possibly in a matter of a few days. The big question was where. The war, slowing to a lull in the Balkans and in Greece, bogging down in a seven-day sandstorm at Tobruch, flaming fitfully in the ragged weather over Britain, gave little clue. But the British, sure trouble was coming, thought they knew the answer (see below). Meanwhile the important military news of the week was the story of the battle...
...Benito stays, I know...
Three days after the fall of Klisura, the Italian Commander in Chief in Albania, General Ubaldo Soddu, also fell-because of ill health, the Italians said. It was another case of shake-up sickness. Benito Mussolini had to have a winning general. He decided to let General Ugo Cavallero, who replaced Marshal Pietro Badoglio as Chief of Staff on Dec. 6, see if he could pick up the pieces in Albania...