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...Axis pact got off to a bad start because Hitler never let Mussolini know what he was up to. When he invaded Poland in 1939 without advance warning, the Duce was shaken. He was happy to have German support for his conquests in the Mediterranean, but he did not want to be dragged into a major European war. When Hitler invaded Russia, again without consulting Mussolini, many Fascists began to have second thoughts about the Axis pact. Among them was Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, who upbraided the German ambassador to Italy...
...remains of the Fascist Party in the north) could bring himself to make was a demand for a list of the stolen art's whereabouts. Strangely, when he got the 19-page list, page 18 was missing; some German official (perhaps Goring) wanted to keep Il Duce from finding certain of the paintings, including the Pollaiuolos. The inventory helped Italy recover nearly all the paintings it listed, but until last December no trace was found of those on the missing page...
Born. To Romano Mussolini, 35, jazz pianist son of Italy's Il Duce; and Maria Scicolone, 24, younger sister of Cinemactress Sophia Loren: their first child, a girl; in Rome. Name: Alessandra...
...Duce, by Christopher Hibbert. The rise and fall of a famous Fascist whose life inspires pity as well as hatred...
...accused De Gaulle of "usurpation" and of asking the nation to "legalize his coups d'etat." Economic Planner Etienne Hirsch blasted De Gaulle by asking if the man who wanted to be the "supreme guide" of France had "forgotten how this translates into Italian, Spanish or German"-il Duce, el Caudillo, der Fűhrer. Opposition posters quoted the words of the late Premier Georges Clemenceau: "The cemeteries are full of indispensable...