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...both towns had Communist mayors, but they got different treatment from their bosses. Little Eugeni played the Duce: "Qui comando io!" (Here, I command!) were his favorite words as he pounded a wobbly table. When he decided to dismiss lower officials like the village doctor, he wrote simply: "Dear Dr. Pirro, I have the honor to inform you you have been fired, (signed) Eugeni." He also fined Village Priest Don Vittorio for collecting money for the harvest festival without his authorization...
Carlo Batero, a cattle breeder in Santa Fe Province, Argentina, is really Vittorio Mussolini, reported Buenos Aires' EI Mundo. "Well-informed sources," the paper said, are sure that the late Duce's son arrived in January on a freighter and bought a great big. estancia, which he calls "New Italy...
...Immediately after liberation, the air of freedom swept over Italy. It is generally admitted that Protestants are still freer today than they were under the Duce. But there are many signs of growing Catholic influence...
...recovering miraculously after he had been abandoned as dead in a cave near Bengasi. Yet his most famous dealings with death occurred in the infamous days between the two wars, when he organized the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, the brilliant Socialist deputy who tried to stand up against the Duce...
...story, which added little to previous reports of the killing (TIME, May 7, 1945). "When a man faces death, he should have the dignity to meet it. Mussolini only trembled." He answered the charge that he and his fellow Partisans had refused confession and last rites to the Duce: "Was I to worry about Mussolini's soul after all I knew of his life...