Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mussolini's place stood no democrat. Aging (71), stiff-backed Martinet Pietro Badoglio had never been counted an extreme Fascist. When the Blackshirts were marching on Rome he looked on contemptuously, offered to clean them up. He had opposed Mussolini's war against Greece, had become the scapegoat for the abject Fascist failure there. He had sided with high Italians who resented the alliance with Hitler and the swelling Nazi arrogance in Italy. The camera's eye had once caught him, alone and defiant among a group of officers, declining to follow the Duce in the Fascist...
...diminutive, testy, puppetlike Vittorio Emanuele was the symbol of a legality shrewdly wrapped around the fasces. The King could have broken up the March on Rome in 1922; instead, he gave power to Benito Mussolini and to an iron hand against liberalism. The King condoned the assault on Ethiopia with a calculating sentence: "If we win, I shall be King of Ethiopia. If we lose, I shall be King of Italy." Now the contract between his house and the house of fascismo had become dangerous; he had broken...
...Last Week. For Benito Mussolini his seven last days as Duce started somewhere in northern Italy. He met for the 14th time with Führer Adolf Hitler. No one knew for certain what transpired between the two men. Where past meetings had been flamboyant, this one was subdued...
...diehard party bosses, such men as Roberto Farinacci and Carlo Scorza, for a final tempestuous session. Then, perhaps, he had conferred with the King and Marshal Badoglio. One fact stood out: the Fascist Grand Council met the day before the resignation, its first meeting since Italy entered the war. Mussolini, the wily politician who had made just one big. but fatal, mistake in his fustian career, might hope that lip service to legality would pay him. One unkind rumor had him relinquishing his power on condition that his personal safety be assured. Another rumor had him and his chief party...
...quiet moment now, Benito Mussolini's mind flashed back, what highlights might it dwell on? There were many: Varano di Costa, an old hamlet on a hill in northern Italy, where he was born 60 years ago; his schoolteacher mother and blacksmith father; the black columns of Popolo d'ltalia, "my most cherished child"; the day in Milan when he needlessly barricaded his newspaper shop while his comrades elsewhere marched on Rome and waited until he arrived by railroad sleeper; the following day when, in black shirt and hip pistol, he stood before Vittorio Emanuele and said...