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...Spindrift was Mussolini's claim that "there has never been any act of sabotage or protest against the war." He conveniently forgot his purge of 160,000 faltering Fascist Party members and the close watch the Gestapo and the Ovra are keeping on suspected revolutionaries and possible Darlanites. He made no mention of reports that near Foggia 40,000 peasants had joined with local militia in a spontaneous uprising which was put down after four days by troops from Rome; or that at Genoa on Oct. 23 air-raid wardens staged an anti-war demonstration...
...under the command of 32-year-old Kosta Nagy. Nagy was not an amateur. As commander of a Croat machine-gun battalion of Republican Spain's International Brigade, Nagy had made a name by holding a position on the Ebro for weeks in spite of persistent attacks by Fascist units far better equipped...
After seven years of scanning Fascist Italy and its wars, United Press Correspondents Reynolds & Eleanor Packard locked themselves in a Manhattan hotel room one day last summer, asked themselves a question: "Why not make our second front in Italy?" By the time they had answered it to their own satisfaction, they had written this book...
...Roman Roads. The Packards' second-front strategy, for which the rest of their book is sprawling, disorganized documentation, emanates less from the armchair than from the bouncing seats of cars on Mussolini's roads. To watch the Fascist empire at war, the Packards jolted over thousands of miles of Neo-Roman roads in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, North Africa and Italy...
Tunisian Maginot Line. When the Fascist Chamber of Deputies began to clamor for French territory, the Packards went to Tunis. Reynolds visited the Berthome (Tunisian Maginot) Line, which "was located between the Libyan frontier and Médenine and consisted mostly of elaborate underground works where whole battalions could hide. There were tank traps and miles of barbed wire, intended specifically to halt cavalry and camel corps. . . . Every oasis was a fortress in itself, complete with machine-gun nests, concrete redoubts, subterranean air-raid shelters, and still more barbed wire entanglements...