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Much had happened since they last met, January 20. Mussolini's legions had miserably failed to conquer Greece. Hitler had rescued them. Mussolini's legions had been chased out of Egypt and westward across half of Italian Libya. Hitler had rescued them. The France that Mussolini declared war against had become a friend of Hitler's. Hitler's Air Force had taken Crete, astride the eastern Mediterranean...
...other seas that may interest us. . . . Treaties are transactions which represent agreements, points of equilibrium. No treaty is eternal.-so said Mussolini, dreaming of expansion in 1923. Benito Mussolini was a man in whom the imperial dream was an obsession. Italy would grow strong through Fascism, then Italy would conquer an empire. Not only bits of Africa would be hers; she would rule Mare Nostrum and its shores. Italian ships would ply back & forth between Italy and Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco; to the east they would sail to the gates of Islam, which would recognize Italy as its protector...
...when he rushed an Army into the Brenner Pass and frightened Young Dictator Hitler out of grabbing Austria. In those seven years the ridiculous little man whom Mussolini belittled had become the conqueror of Europe. Yet even victorious Dictator Hitler was a prisoner of his conquests: he must conquer new worlds to be safe in the world he has conquered. And his prisoner, Aging Dictator Mussolini, must help him to conquer them...
Last week, in the hour of Axis victory, the two dictators, with 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...
...under his control (see p. 27), he held sway over northwest Africa, had a foothold in the Near East. Peace would be fine for Hitler-peace with the status quo. It would give him time to consolidate his conquests, to build a navy, to soften up new worlds to conquer...