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...pieties of art politics, up to the present, have tended to discourage this, since the arrival of Mussolini was greeted with rapture by so many leading artists and intellectuals. The Fascist rhetoric of dynamism and machine efficiency meshed with (and was partly inspired by) that of futurism; while the Duce's promise of a renewed empire, a "third Rome" that would replay the Augustan past, had immediate appeal to nostalgists like De Chirico, Carra and even Giorgio Morandi...
...leader's enthusiasm, Italian audiences and critics have had a more mixed reaction to the star's latest film, Claretta, directed by Cardinale's constant companion, Pasquale Squitieri. The comely Cardinale plays Mussolini's mistress, and some think the movie is too soft on II Duce. "The film is not about Mussolini," counters Producer Giacomo Pezzali. "It is about Claretta Petacci and her family. We've concentrated on the love story between Claretta and Mussolini. All we wanted to do was a film about this woman who was so very much like a character...
...that's not the way it is in my country,'" Deverajan says. "Generalization is a means of teaching, and by definition we will have exceptions. Their perspective is still very focussed on the problems of their own countries." He adds, "Our approach can be considered cold-blooded. We're duce very real problems to models and the value of that is that we are able to leave the rhetoric aside...
...five minutes before noon on the fatal day, with German troops actually in motion toward the Czech border which they were to cross at 2 p.m., Il Duce in Rome rang up Chancellor Hitler at Berlin and they talked for 45 minutes. The Führer had received that morning a second appeal for peace from President Roosevelt...
...House of Commons, Neville Chamberlain seemed to be trending toward a declaration of war, when suddenly the Prime Minister began to tell how he had sent a letter to Il Duce urging him to contact the Führer...