Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Italy finally threw in the towel, the market took the good news in traditional style: it went down. But the drop, two-thirds of a point on the Dow-Jones industrial average, was picayune compared to the threeday, 6½-point nose dive that followed the fall of Mussolini last July, and was more than made up in the next day's trading...
...Mussolini is at liberty and his delivery to the Anglo-U.S. Allies . . . has been frustrated...
...mill ground thrilling details: how the loyal Führer "himself prepared the plan for freeing his friend"; how Italian guards had orders to shoot the ex-Duce if anyone tried to free him; how "SS Commandos," despite those orders, whisked off their man "without a scratch"; how grateful Mussolini had movingly phoned the Führer after his release. The Berlin claim fitted into Adolf Hitler's unfolding scheme for Italy under Nazi control. That scheme called for a puppet Fascist regime, set up in Mussolini's name but probably under direction of one of Fascismo...
Bern relayed a story that the Germans may have found Benito Mussolini in the Braschi Fortress outside Rome. The Daily Mail said that the ex-Duce had been trans ported to the Ponza Islands, a volcanic cluster in the Tyrrhenian Sea between Ostia and Naples. War Correspondent John Steinbeck had a similar story. He had gone with an Allied landing party to Ventotene Island, one of the Ponza group. Said Correspondent Steinbeck: he had missed Benito Mussolini by less than twelve hours. "I talked with a number of inhabitants. They said Mussolini assured them he would return to power...
Said the Foreign Office in London: it had no information on Benito Mussolini's whereabouts. At no time had he been in Allied hands...