Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play Hitler's game by accusing the Allies of trying to shift the war to the Balkans and the French Ambassador André François-Poncet hurried, home to Paris to confer with his Government. Still the balance of power in Europe seemed to be held by Mussolini...
Friends smuggled Göring into Austria and Karin, though ill, went with him. Hitler was a forgotten captive, writing Mein Kampf in prison, and Göring was near the end of his rope. In Italy he tried to interest Fascists in Naziism, failed to impress Mussolini. Back in Sweden, he took to morphine (which he had probably first used under the stress of wartime flying), was committed to an asylum. The psychiatrist who treated him diagnosed him as an "extremely dangerous asocial hysteric." When he was released, Karin's child by her first husband was not allowed...
...still shone violently next day when Activist Bose staged his big challenge. In a field across the Damodar River, within shouting distance of the Gandhi camp, Suhhas Bose harangued 5,000 of his followers. He damned Gandhi's dilatory tactics, pointed out how Mussolini sprang into action in 1922, demanded similar sudden decisions in the India of 1940. Then he mounted a farmer's cart drawn by two white bullocks, and as his followers carried banners (including the hammer-&-sickle), he rode in loud triumph right through the Gandhi camp. For the moment, the race was to Bose...
...born Telephone Diplomat Abraham ("Abe") Pickus, maker of expensive long-distance calls to foreign statesmen on behalf of peace, cabled to Joseph Stalin: "GET WISE TO YOURSELF. TELL THE WORLD THAT RUSSIA WAS AND IS WILLING TO DISARM AND SETTLE ALL DISPUTES BY ARBITRATION. CALL A WORLD CONFERENCE. HITLER, MUSSOLINI, CHAMBERLAIN, DALADIER ARE SAVAGES. TRY TO BRING THEM TO THE TABLE WITH THE HELP OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. A. PICKUS...
...several respects the raid was a World War II first: numbers, timing, effect. It coincided perfectly with Adolf Hitler's visit to Benito Mussolini: as much as to say, if we can do this to you boys at Scapa, how about Gibraltar and Alexandria...