Word: mussolini
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...merely given way to Whiteshirt Fascismo. Cried the underground: "Treason . . . betrayal. . . . We are going from one dictatorship to another. . . . The time has come for [the people] ... to demand ... a clear declaration of [the government's] foreign and internal policy." Giornale d'ltalia, no longer edited by Mussolini Mouthpiece Virginio Gayda (rumored a suicide), warned: "[Italy might have as much to fear] from her friends as from her enemies." Milan's Corriere della Sera, mutilated by the censor, voiced a widespread worry: "The limpid truths of the first few hours following the collapse of dictatorship have been succeeded...
...Badoglio's replacement of Mussolini is not an improvisation to meet a suddenly developed crisis; it is the first stage in a long-prepared plan aiming at securing Italy an 'honorable' peace with the United Nations. The Italian participants are the Royal House of Savoy, the Vatican (as mediator), and the 'Peace Party.' The Peace Party consists simply of Italy's traditional ruling classes, and their basic aim is to preserve their power. They had no essential quarrel with Fascism so long as it was successful. But when it became obvious that the Axis...
...Said General Eisenhower, in a broadcast which must have had Washington's approval, if not London's: "We commend the Italian people and the House of Savoy for ridding themselves of Mussolini." To the Italians he offered "mild and beneficent" occupation, return of war prisoners, restoration of "ancient traditions and liberties...
Russia. An Izvestia editorial warned Russians: "By no means should illusions be cherished that with Mussolini's going Fascism automatically perished. The alliance of Italian Fascism with Hitlerite Germany proved fatal for Italy. But it is just this alliance which will for some time yet support the tottering edifice of Italian Fascism. This is so because German troops are on the territory of Italy. . . . Nothing resembling a democratic, anti-Fascist coup d'état has taken place in Italy...
Moscow immediately capitalized on the Italian situation in its political warfare. Moscow radio beamed an appeal of the Free German committee to the German people to overthrow Hitler. "Mussolini is the first to go, but he will not be the last ally of Hitler's to desert the sinking ship. In Budapest . . . the same will soon happen. Mannerheim and Antonescu also...