Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...wearing a red beard, according to Pack), he was rehired to cover the Ethiopian and Spanish wars. He was Rome bureau chief when the Fascists interned him and his wife, Eleanor, whose by-line had become as well-known and somewhat more reliable. The Packards got even with Mussolini by writing a book called Balcony Empire...
...last weeks of liberty to proclaim their faith with rights more or less equal to Roman Catholicism's. This spring, barring some development not now foreseen in Rome, a new postFascist constitution will be approved which will put Italian Protestantism back into the same strait-jacket that Mussolini kept...
Half the world accused Mussolini of having instigated the brutal murder. For appearance sake, Mussolini had Dumini and four accomplices put on trial. Dumini got off with two months in jail. Last January, 23 years later, he was put on trial again by the re-established Italian Republic. He took the stand in Rome's Court of Assizes, looking as jaundiced as the walls with their ornate Roman eagles, whose gilt was flaking off from time to time and floating gently down into the courtroom. He seemed to snarl as he spoke, because his World War II bullet wound...
...have the impression that I was shooting a human being," said Audisio, as he launched into his 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...