Word: milan
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Death came last week to Benito Mussolini, from the rifles of an Italian firing squad. As his body lay, reviled and spat upon, in a public square of Milan, it was as though the pent-up jury of a nation was beating upon the senseless clay of the man who had led it to vainglory, shame and disaster. From TIME Correspondent Reg Ingraham came this eyewitness report of one of history's raw spectacles...
...Murdered Sons!" The first of the Fascist dictators was the first to meet death at the hands of the people he had so long oppressed. This Sunday morning (April 29), in a sun-drenched square not far from Milan's center, where 22 years ago Editor Benito Mussolini launched the Black Shirt March on Rome, his battered, bullet-riddled corpse sprawled in public display. His head rested on the breast of his mistress, comely Clara Petacci, who had died with him. Around him stretched the bodies of 16 of his Black Shirt henchmen...
...bodies of the 18 were loaded into a moving van and trucked south to Milan. There, at 3 a.m. Friday, they were dumped in the old Piazza Loreto, now renamed Piazza Quindici Martiri, in honor of 15 antiFascists recently executed there...
...taking a warlike census of historic Italian cities. Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army swept northward from Bologna, spanned the Po's yellow waters and raced for the mountains. They bypassed Mantua, Virgil's homeland Verona, the town of Romeo and Juliet. Milan, Italy's No. 1 industrial city, was occupied; so was Turin...
Partisans Up. There was little resistance. Fortified positions were found abandoned. Yugoslav Partisans captured Trieste. Everywhere Italian partisan units emerged from hiding. At Milan, Genoa and many another place they forced the surrender of German garrisons before Allied troops arrived. Near Como they caught and shot Benito Mussolini (see FOREIGN NEWS...