Word: duces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Names on a Rock. Trieste was the other big unsettled issue of the Italian treaty. From Trieste came a story: when the Yugoslav Partisans seized the city they wrote "Tito" across the word "Duce," lettered on a rock overlooking Trieste harbor. After the Yugoslavs withdrew, someone had rubbed out the "Tito," failed to rub out the "Duce...
...allegory of conflicting Big Power attitudes in Eastern Europe. The Anglo-Americans contended that in the Russian-dominated countries one kind of dictatorship had replaced another. The Russians answered that if their Balkan regimes fell, the men who had welcomed the Nazis would creep back into power, just as "Duce" had reappeared on Trieste's rock...
...more lurid and anatomical.") Generally, however, the Ciano diary is a long-winded loser's lament, repeating all the familiar whines (Italy did not want war; Germany betrayed Italy and never told the Italians anything). Its most sensational charge-that Prime Minister Chamberlain submitted a speech to the Duce before delivering it to the House of Commons-will need more documentation than the say-so of the Duce's discredited...
...Rachele Mussolini, plump widow of the Duce. She was caught, along with her two youngest children, a jugful of jewelry and $120,000 cash, by partisans as she sought refuge in Switzerland. The Italians turned her over, as a harmless matron, to U.S. custody...
Shortly before noon today the bodies were removed to a mortuary. Mussolini and Petacci were dragged like sacks of grain into a high-walled courtyard. Men, women & children followed, climbing the brick wall and peering over at the shapeless pulp that was the Duce's face. The people's temper, as though satiated, seemed calmer now. "At last, it is finished," said one quietly. "He was punished...