Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three British naval greats-Nelson, Hood and Hood's brother, Lord Bridport. A seaman like his ancestors, the present Lord Bridport went to the naval training college at Dartmouth, was a midshipman aboard H.M.S. Nelson for three years, fought as a lieutenant commander in World War II. Mussolini confiscated his duchy during the war, but Lord Bridport got it back and returned...
Collaborator. They let it be known that if their deputies won, they would choose as Rome's mayor a solid-jowled and prosperous lawyer named Giovanni Selvaggi. Selvaggi is well-fitted for the role of an unwitting Judas sheep. A pre-Mussolini liberal, he retired from politics during Fascism, built himself a fine legal practice while quietly opposing Mussolini. After the war, Premier de Gasperi made him high commissioner of Sicily, where he did a difficult job well...
Alas for poor, weak, indecisive Clara, it was nothing of the kind. Her love and her letters continued to pour forth for the benefit of masterful Benito Mussolini, right up to the time in April 1945 when the two of them were hung together by the heels in death in Milan's Piazza Loreto. Clara never learned to forgive her dictator, his indifference, his violence or his infidelities, and never learned to forget...
Trinkets in Triplicate. Before leaving her villa on Lake Garda to join Mussolini on their final journey, La Petacci entrusted the whole agonized portfolio of her stormy love to two friends, Carlo and Caterina Cervis, who shared her villa. The dossier, inventoried in triplicate by the methodical Clara, included most of the "Dear Ben" letters she had written to Benito, plus recordings of her lover's own speeches and copies of his letters, a trunkful of trinkets and keepsakes, and volumes of diaries, including one kept on toilet paper during her imprisonment by the Badoglio government...
...Capri, Raimonda Ciano, 18-year-old daughter of the late Count Galeazzo Ciano, and granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, announced her engagement to Sandro Guinta, 23, a blood descendant of Napoleon...