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...October 1940, Benito Mussolini, itching for a personal triumph in Hitler's war, launched his Blackshirt attack on Greece through Albania. Eagerly seizing her first opportunity for service, Crown Princess Frederika plunged four-square into the task of mobilizing Greece's women in a drive to provide clothing for the pitifully under-equipped Greek army. The army stopped the Duce's Fascists cold, Frederika's clothing drive was a huge success, and both won new respect in the eyes of the Greek people. Then, early irf the next year, Hitler sent the Wehrmacht into Greece...
...order," Lacerda violated the law by printing Page One stories accusing police of graft. He was carted off to jail, said boldly: "I feel it is a great honor to be accused of violating the security law, which is a copy of a Fascist law decreed in Italy by Mussolini." Four days later the Senate changed...
...Mirror out on a dull and endless campaign against national "Squandermania," tried to capture readers with a series of giveaways and contests. "In a decade of brashness," says Historian Cudlipp, "the Mirror offered gentility." Rothermere also made some wrong guesses in politics, spoke kindly of Hitler, Mussolini, and even of Britain's home-grown Fascist Oswald Mosley. Gradually the paper lost readers, and in 1931 Rothermere finally stepped out, selling his shares on the open market. The Mirror was swiftly transformed. Readers accustomed to seeing features about swans on the Thames awoke one morning and found such inch-high...
Elisabeth Hanna, whose ambition is to become a foreign correspondent, will spend her Fulbright year in Italy doing research on the writing produced during Mussolini's regime, and the effect of a totalitarian system on modern writers...
...group, it appeared, had used a Düsseldorf import-export firm to organize a neo-Nazi International, with contacts in France, Britain, Spain and Argentina. German firms looking for business in Madrid were told to see Otto Skorzeny, the scar-faced ex-SS officer who recaptured Mussolini in 1943. In Buenos Aires the man to see was Hans Ulrich Rudel, the one-legged Panzer knacker (tankbuster) now attached to Dictator Perón's army-training staff, who last week was given special leave to fly to Germany for a "whirlwind tour of speeches" on behalf...