Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began in Rome one day in June 1924, when an old woman sitting in a doorway and a little boy playing in the street saw a grey Fiat sedan pull up to a curb. Five men jumped out, grabbed Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, leader of the opposition to Benito Mussolini. They wrestled him into the car. It raced away. That was the last that was seen of Matteotti until his body, stabbed 36 times, beaten, partly burned, was found a few days later in a Roman ditch...
...over the world, Socialists, Liberals, Communists pointed a finger at Mussolini and cried: "Murderer...
...hubbub in Italy was tremendous. If Mussolini's complicity in the murder had been proved, he would have been driven from the Government. Nobody did prove it. Cried Mussolini: "Only an enemy who for long nights had thought of something diabolical against me could have committed this crime...
...Mussolini was saved. But somehow the world never forgot the crime. From time to time Matteotti's ghost, started up to haunt Mussolini. From time to time people involved in the murder talked. But they never really told anything. Nevertheless there was a perennial rumor that the Corriere Italiano's editor Filippelli (who has since dropped out of sight) had written a full confession. Only one photostated copy of the confession existed...
...when he went to see Franco less than a month ago, two of Franco's heroes had disappeared. Gone were Hitler and Mussolini. Only the Holy Father remained on Franco's table...