Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mussolini's fall did not move Argentina, only South American government which has refused to break with the Axis, toward the United Nations. Reports came from Buenos Aires that it would not be nt national dignity for Argentina to kick Italy when she's down, to kick Germany when she's going down. The U.S., the Argentine Government was sure, would understand...
...seared and scarred and blackened from one end to the other." The Allied armies spoke through General Dwight Eisenhower: "You can have peace immediately and peace under honorable conditions. . . . Your part is to cease immediately any assistance to German military forces." But from the palace at Rome, where Benito Mussolini's onetime partners struggled to hold power, the voices said the war must go on, the people must not rage like lions but be calm like sheep...
...People. From Milan, Italy's second city, Benito Mussolini had plotted the March on Rome. From Milan now came the fiercest revolutionary impulses...
Around the offices of Popolo d'Italia, the newspaper child of Benito Mussolini, the Milanese displayed a long-pent hatred. Within the building an armed band of Fascists held out. Led by Vito Mussolini, a nephew of the ex-Duce, they had seized women and children as hostages. They tried to placate the angry crowd by tossing from the top floor a man thought to be Amerigo Dumini, one of the assassins of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist who long ago defied clubs and castor oil. Then the carabinieri came. After several days of rifle fire and tear...
Farewell, Fortress. The Swiss weekly Weltwoche, known for its authentic military information, said last week that the German idea of Fortress Europe was already dead. According to Weltwoche, even before Mussolini quit, the Germans had abandoned any hope of holding all the shores and lands of Axis Europe. Instead, they planned to turn Norway, Denmark and Belgium in the north, France in the west, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria and Crete in the south into rear-guard battlefields. As in Sicily, limited German forces would fight for those lands-not to hold them indefinitely, but to make invasion as slow...