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...Duce himself followed the pattern when he took up with the beautiful Clara Petacci in place of his legal wife Rachele. It was in Clara's company that Mussolini was shot and hung by the heels by vengeful partisans. Italy's late Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti left his wife to live openly with Comrade Leonilde Jotti; the couple even adopted a daughter. When Togliatti died last summer, Leonilde marched behind the coffin, while Signora Togliatti got lost in the crowd...
...republic; an early, outspoken anti-Fascist who, as editor of Milan's influential Corriere della Sera in the early 1920s, and later as an indefatigable agitator exiled in Paris, was so unrelenting a foe of Mussolini's that he eventually found himself near the top of Il Duce's must-kill list; in Rome...
...sell. Lists can be rented with the names of 221,782 doctors, 2,476 patent lawyers, 18 safety-pin makers, 41 zoos, Cadillac owners and every American named Murphy (50,000). On the average, each mailing nets less than a 2% response, but that is enough to pro duce $30 billion in mail sales...
...Duce's words, "Se avanzo seguitenii. Se indietreggio uccidetemi," showed a much greater Christian spirit because he omitted any reference to vendetta...
Cold Retreat. Military reverses in Russia strained relations even further. The Duce had sent some Italian troops along to Russia to be in on the victory. When victory turned into disaster at Stalingrad in early 1943, the Germans blamed the Italians for capitulating too quickly. They took revenge by grabbing the Italian transport for their own retreat, leaving many Italians to freeze to death in the Russian winter. They also gleefully filmed Italians fleeing from battle. Mussolini received a letter from a soldier at the front: "Among the officers of both higher and lower rank a general feeling of rancor...