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...Mazzini's liberal vision turned into the gimcrack grandiosity of Mussolini's Italy is a story that gives historical dimension to this biography. Modern Italy, in Author Rhodes's view, is largely the work of two poets-Dante.'with his "conception of a revised Roman Empire which lay dormant in the Italian mind for nearly 600 years." and D'Annunzio. who grafted onto this conception a set of Machiavellian politics and alien Nietzschean notions of a Mediterranean superman...
...others solemnly renounced war "as an instrument of national policy." And in Geneva in 1932, delegates of 60 nations met in a grand-finale disarmament conference. So durable is human hope that the last surviving committee of the great 1932 conference lingered on in Geneva until 1937, after Mussolini had invaded Ethiopia, civil war had erupted in Spain, and Hitler had marched into the Rhineland...
Died. Gino Sotis, 57, Italy's famed divorce-hating divorce lawyer, whose clients included Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, the Shah of Iran's ex-wife Fawzia, Barbara Hutton, and Mussolini's last mistress, Claretta Petacci; of a heart attack; in Rome...
...Italians," says Field Marshal Erich von Manstein in his memoirs of Stalingrad, simply "disappeared from the battlefield." In the most decisive battle of World War II, the Russians, breaking through west of the city on the front held by 220,000 men of Mussolini's Italian Expeditionary Force among others, hurtled on across the Don steppes and never finally stopped till they got to Berlin. In six weeks of catastrophic rout and retreat, the Italians' ten divisions suffered casualties officially estimated at 115,000 men. Of these, they evacuated 30,000 wounded and listed 11,000 as dead...
Last week Komsomolskaya Pravda offered a partial accounting. The Soviet Commission Investigating German Atrocities had taken testimony from one Nina Pietruszkowna, a young Polish interpreter for the Italian command, who said that after Mussolini's fall in 1943, Nazi authorities in Lvov asked Italian troops and officers to swear allegiance to Hitler Germany and continue the war against the Soviet Union, and that those who refused were arrested. "More than 2,000 Italians were arrested, and the Nazis shot them all," she testified. "Among those shot were five generals and 45 officers, many of whom I knew personally...