Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lean Years. The day after Mussolini declared war, A.B.C. put to sea with a task force of two battleships, a carrier, five cruisers and several destroyers, and swept right up until he almost tickled the instep of the Italian foot. He got no reaction. Such sweeps became the pattern for his fleet. Whenever his ships found Italians, they whipped them. On one occasion Admiral Sir James Fownes Somerville on the Nelson knocked the Italians and escaped with nothing worse than a scare from an Italian torpedo, which missed. Flashed A.B.C.: "Flag to Nelson. Success of your operation should console...
Hope & Humor. German soldiers stormed that impudent Belgians asked them: "Have you packed your bags yet?" A Danish bookseller put two huge portraits of Hitler and Mussolini in his window. Between them, he placed a copy of Les Misérables...
...Deals. Some reports had Hungary defying the Germans but not quite breaking with them. The Germans are aware that Hungary is feeling out the possibilities of deals with the U.S. and Britain. Budapest papers played up Premier Nicholas Kallay's recent trip to Rome, where he conferred with Mussolini and was received at the Vatican. The same papers virtually ignored Regent Nicholas Horthy's recent conference with Hitler. Kallay further angered the Germans by dealing with the long-dormant but now reviving Social Democrats, and a new Socialist Peasant party. But paid pro-Germans are still strong...
Almost 21 years of Fascism has taught Benito Mussolini to be shrewd as well as ruthless. Last week he toughened the will of his people to fight, by appeals to their patriotism, and by propaganda which made the most of their fierce resentment of British and U.S. bombings. He also sought to reduce the small number pf Italians who might try to cut his throat by independent deals with the Allies...
...military conquest of Italy may be no easy task. After the Duce finished his week's activities, political warfare against Italy looked just as difficult, and it was hard to find an alternative to Mussolini for peace or postwar negotiations...