Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Daily News's ballyhoo on its $75,000 pride & joy: the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's late son-in-law. Last week 70 U.S. papers, and 25 papers abroad, began printing it. Perhaps no document could have lived up to such advance billing; the Ciano diary did not even come close...
...News tailored the diary's meandering 450,000 words down to a tenth of its length. It also cleaned it up. (Mussolini is quoted as calling King Vittorio Emanuele an "S.O.B."; the News delicately notes that "the Italian term was more lurid and anatomical.") Generally, however, the Ciano diary is a long-winded loser's lament, repeating all the familiar whines (Italy did not want war; Germany betrayed Italy and never told the Italians anything). Its most sensational charge-that Prime Minister Chamberlain submitted a speech to the Duce before delivering it to the House of Commons-will...
...Rather Bizarre." How the diary got out is a better story than any Ciano tells. His wife, Edda Mussolini Ciano, smuggled it across the Swiss border in five thick notebooks strapped to her body beneath her skirts. Swiss guards mistakenly thought she was pregnant. According to her story, the Nazis offered her 100,000,000 gold lire ($5,000,000) for the diary. She said no. Later she offered it to Hitler and Mussolini in return for Ciano's life-and was refused. By the time the Chicago News and three competitors put in their bids, Ciano was dead...
...grand son of the Kaiser and former Ford Motor Co. employe, last week told A. P. Correspondent Louis Lochner that he had approached Ribbentrop in the autumn of 1938 as a secret and unofficial emissary of President Roosevelt. Roosevelt, said the prince, wanted to arrange a meeting with Hitler, Mussolini and Neville Chamberlain to avert the approaching war. Ribbentrop's only an swer to the prince's suggestion was a threat to have him thrown out of the Luftwaffe...
...ments. Most of Caricaturist Artzybasheff's 32 imaginative, humorous, smoothly competent wash drawings show the Axis coming out second best against U.S. industrial might. In Artzybasheff's fancy: ¶A crisscross pattern of steel wire becomes a cage for three hoary, gaping primates with the faces of Mussolini, Hitler and Tojo...