Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the balance of political power in Italy suddenly swung to the Left. This was due not so much to Italy's difficulties, although since the fall of Mussolini lire circulation has doubled, the Italian national debt quadrupled (according to the British Ministry of Economic Warfare). It is due mainly to the passage of time which has given the muddied political waters of invaded Italy a chance to clarify. From political confusion some political groups began to settle...
From Voltaire to Lenin, Europe's political exiles have found a haven in Switzerland. Recent notable refugees: Novelist Thomas Mann, running away from the Nazis in 1933; Countess Galeazzo (Edda Mussolini) Ciano, running away from the Allies and Nazis this year...
...Rome an astonished carabinieri officer blinked, gasped, began to count. Never had he seen so many pregnant romanas trudging back from visits to the countryside. He remembered Mussolini and his medals for motherhood. But Il Duce was gone. Could it be that his works were marching on? The suspicious carabiniere decided to investigate, uncovered a widespread fraud. In fitted containers under their clothes the "pregnant" women were delivering olive oil to Rome's black-market buyers. A few days of prenatal checkups yielded ten tons...
...Dumini [the actual murderer of Matteotti] is very well known to the President of the [Fascist] Council, Honorable Mussolini...
...Dumini 1) had carried out an assault on Misuri [Deputy Alfred Misuri], 2) had worked in France, 3) had recently assaulted Forni [Deputy Cesare Forni] in a station at Milan with Mussolini's knowledge and connivance...