Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China. A Chinese spokesman said: "When one leg of the tripod is broken, it will naturally have a demoralizing effect on the other two. . . . Tojo will follow the fate of Mussolini...
Japan. After hurried conferences with the German and Italian ambassadors, Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu told the Cabinet that Japan's war policy would remain unchanged, despite any "new developments" which might follow the resignation of Benito Mussolini...
Like many another opportunist who leaped aboard the Fascist band wagon, Juan March's nostrils apparently told him that the band wagon was turning into a one-hoss shay. Other Spaniards sniffed the same scent. Arriba, Falange newspaper in Madrid, termed Mussolini's fall "a symbol of a defeated people" and asked: "What power, what institution can today resist defeat...
...Hope. The Germans seemed to know as much. Unable to hold all of Italy, they feebly hoped that Mussolini's successors might be able to prevent the use of Italian air, naval and troop bases for continental attack. The Allies, determined to have these bases, warned Italians that all-out air raids were near, and precipitated a mass exodus from Italian cities. Spanish Fascists in Berlin, newspaper correspondents who until lately had written of coming German offensives, cabled Madrid newspapers that the Germans were now in extrema defensa (a last stand)-and that Nazi militarists now talked...
Birthday. Benito Mussolini, 60; quietly; perhaps in jail...