Word: duces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fascist even before the 1922 march on Rome. Says Malaparte: I too, was of course, a Fascist as was everybody at that time for the same reasons for which everybody is now antiFascist. He became editor of Turin's influential La Stampa and stood very well with the Duce. Later he got into trouble with Fascist big shots (even sat in jail a bit), but it was all personal, not ideological...
...Both had felt differently about the lynched Mussolini. The Times scooped the world with a front-page picture of the Duce and his mistress, taken before their bodies were strung up. But there were then many who doubted whether Mussolini was really dead; nobody needed pic torial evidence of the end of Nürnberg's eleven...
When Tito drives through the streets of Belgrade in a bullet-proof car, accompanied by tanks and four truckloads of soldiers, crowds yell: "Tito, Ti-to!" (to the familiar rhythm of "Duce, Du-ce!"). Children chant: "Kral se zenio, Tito se borio" ("The King married, Tito fought"). Ancient ballads praising ex-King Peter's ancestor (Kara George, a prominent Serbian hero and hog farmer) are changed to fit Tito. Sample...
...that session his seldom consulted followers were reluctant to go along, although they were as unprepared for civil war as they were for peace. Next day the hammiest actor in world politics (now that Il Duce has made his exit) had to put on another show to make the League see reason...
Died. Gina Ruberti Mussolini, 29, pretty brunette widow of the Duce's second son, Bruno; by drowning (when a small boat sank during a midnight boating party with British soldiers); in Lake Como...