Word: duces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the offices of Popolo d'Italia, the newspaper child of Benito Mussolini, the Milanese displayed a long-pent hatred. Within the building an armed band of Fascists held out. Led by Vito Mussolini, a nephew of the ex-Duce, they had seized women and children as hostages. They tried to placate the angry crowd by tossing from the top floor a man thought to be Amerigo Dumini, one of the assassins of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist who long ago defied clubs and castor oil. Then the carabinieri came. After several days of rifle fire and tear...
...Fascist Nation . . . has understood and followed the course of the war with passion and faith. [The Fascist Nation] has given to the . . . world, as never before, a vision of such endurance, of souls so ardent, of hearts so devoted alike to their country . . . to their Emperor, and to their Duce, whose hand guides them...
...Badoglio Government, which presumably knew, kept silent. But Europe's rumor factories labored overtime, putting the ex-Duce...
Perhaps, as speculation presented the scene, the haggard, thinning Duce made a last impassioned plea for military aid, then listened to an equally impassioned refusal (see p. 30). Surely it was a rendezvous with frustration. From it the Duce had gone again to Rome...
...Wheel of Fortune. If the ex-Duce were really under arrest, his political career had now run full cycle, and an old claustrophobia might be tormenting him. In his youth he had been a vociferous, stinging pleader for socialism and pacifism. For such views he had seen the inside of many a prison; he had come to loathe confining walls. In World War I his principles had shifted: he had become an imperialist and a nationalist; he had started on the path to lofty offices, an open balcony, spreading maps of empire and the windy vista of Fascism...