Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inglorious part played by the Vatican in Hitler's and Mussolini's adventures in Spain is widely known. The Vatican kept silent when Italy launched the 'stab in the back' attack on France in June, 1940. Now the Vatican preaches 'impartial love for all nations' but the fact remains that in this great historic battle of freedom-loving people against the enemy of mankind, the Vatican occupied the position of an outright accomplice of Fascism. . . . Franco is a Vatican pet and Franco's Spain is the image of the clerical states of postwar...
Lost Reserves. In the summer of 1943 Germany had a real reserve. Some 25 unassigned Nazi divisions in south Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia were ready to be moved to any theater, for any task. But after Mussolini's fall they were dispatched to Italy and the Balkans. In the autumn a part of this force (probably five armored divisions) was rushed to the Ukraine. Of the remaining 20 divisions, about ten are fighting in Yugoslavia and southern Italy. The other ten are in northern Italy (or were until Rome was threatened last week...
While Fascismo still paid dividends, Count Galeazzo Ciano supped as well as any. Wedded to Mussolini's daughter, the waspish, predatory Edda, and openly called the heir apparent, he swooped through his duties as Foreign Minister with minimum effort and maximum profit...
Ciano was no fool. He saw the writing on the wall well ahead of the other stal warts of the Fascist hierarchy, began making quiet plans to save himself. His solicitude cost him the favor of the Nazis, later the trust of his fellow-Fascists. Mussolini took over the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, made his son-in-law Ambassador to the Vatican. But he let Ciano save face with a seat on the Fascist Grand Council, and it was there that Ciano pulled down his house of cards about his ears: when the Council voted to oust Mussolini last July...
Arturo Toscanini did, from hate of Mussolini, what Hollywood could not persuade him to do for love or money. He made his first movie. In a short for foreign distribution he belabored old enemies with the words he wrote last year for Verdi's Hymn of the Nations ("Italy betrayed...