Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well, provided that Italy live." Eighteen Councilors, including five in custody, were sentenced to death (one got 30 years). The condemned at first did not take the sentence seriously. Italians do not believe in executions, least of all for political reasons, and Ciano was, after all, Mussolini's son-in-law and former Foreign Minister. But the priests came and the prisoners realized that they were to die. Ciano agreed to sign a petition to the Duce. A courier flew to Lake Garda, where Mussolini was staying. But that night he was not there, nor did he appear until...
Able, Rome-wise New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews spent weeks digging out the facts in the strange and murky death of Mussolini's son-in-law, flashy Count Galeazzo Ciano (TIME, Jan. 17). Last week Matthews cabled his findings from Rome. Their gist...
Under Fascism, money could buy almost anything, even a man's life. Someone spent millions trying to save Ciano. He almost escaped death. But there was treachery within treachery and behind it the implacable figure of Benito Mussolini, who sealed his son-in-law's fate...
...Verona last January, it was Caruso who had the job of executing Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, whom Hitler had condemned to death. Calmly, Caruso sent a bullet into the back of Cianos head as the latter sat astraddle a chair; cooly he fired a coup de grâce when Ciano's squirming spoiled the accuracy of the first...
According to London's BBC, Mussolini had movies taken of the edifying scene...