Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years the Allies had forborne. In those three years Mussolini had clamored for and received the privilege of bombing London. Axis planes had not forborne, because of religious and esthetic sensibilities, assaults on Rotterdam and Cairo. In those three years the Fascists had made Rome one of the greatest...
...Italian drama and opera, il furbo [applied to Mussolini-TIME, June 21] ... is a not-too-sinister trickster and cheat whose schemes, for a time, prosper greatly. Invariably, however, he overextends himself and becomes involved in a fatal tangle. Only the intervention of providence, or some powerful protector who can make selfish use of his talents, saves him from final disaster. He emerges with his life, but shorn of all his gains...
...striven, ever since the swift collapse of the Axis in Tunisia (TIME, June 21), to sandbag and shore up their structure. On June 24, before an emergency meeting of the Fascist Party Directorate, the aging Duce had spoken privately. Now, almost on the eve of the Allied invasion, Mussolini's words were broadcast to his people...
Sound Scoop. For 18 days, during the crisis, Kaltenborn scarcely left the CBS studios. He made 102 broadcasts of two minutes to two hours each. Able to trans late Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini as they came hot off the short wave (luckily there were no sun spots to destroy reception), he gave the radio public an instant summary of their talk and its meaning. The U.S. public had never listened so widely or so intensely to radio news before, and it bought more receiving sets during the crisis than in any previous three weeks of radio history...
Paid Brain. Anyone listening to Kaltenborn's final broadcast for last week (NBC, Mon. to Fri., 7:45 p.m., E.W.T.) heard that Mussolini, though slipping, was still Italy's boss; that the refusal of Argentina's new government to sanction a general election meant more dictatorship and revolution; that the U.S. food situation was bad because it had been run by a White House clique; that U.S. coal miners were 50% better off than when war began...