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Word: mussolini (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fascists' Abortion. U.P.'s Rome Bureau Chief, rotund Reynolds Packard, in his first dispatch from Portugal, reported an abortive attempt by extreme pro-German Fascists to kidnap Mussolini and "elimi-nate" his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano. The Fascist regime, said Packard, is split by one group demanding closer collaboration with Germany and Vichyfrance and another fearful that the closer Italy works with both the slimmer are the chances of Italy's claims on French Tunisia, Djibouti, Savoy and Nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Home Sweet Home | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...Mussolini's "Cratoplutes." A "sadder and wiser" Italy than the one he had known when he marched with Italian troops in Ethiopia was what New York Timesman Herbert Matthews left behind. He minimized the chance of revolt in Italy, but found it "difficult to conceive of a Government with less popular consent than Fascism has today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Home Sweet Home | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

Hitler and Mussolini last week revived their old act -The Big Talk. This time it was staged on the Königssee near Salzburg, at Castle Fuschl, which belongs to German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's papa. It was followed by the usual windy notices from their press-agents and the usual cyclone of rumors from their stooges. Mussolini even sent Hitler the tried & tested telegram: "The meeting will be an unforgettable memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: At Castle Fuschl | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...number of important subjects: the coming offensives, war weariness in the Axis, U.S. war effort, food and labor shortages, materiel problems, sabotage and guerrilla resistance. But outside Castle Fuschl most people knew that Hitler, who runs Italy through the Gestapo, has little need to burden the sagging mind of Mussolini for very long with such weighty matters. Hence the world outside Castle Fuschl wondered whether there was any special reason for The Big Talk other than its theatrical value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: At Castle Fuschl | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Perhaps Hitler and Mussolini worried a bit about rumors that dissatisfied groups inside Italy were plotting a separate peace offer to the United Nations behind their backs. Soon after The Big Talk "a certain number" of additional Gestapo agents went to Italy for the ludicrous, announced purpose of "studying the organization of the Italian police." But Italy undoubtedly keeps the Gestapo busy, whether separate peace plotters are active...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: At Castle Fuschl | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

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