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Italy's first President is a 68-year-old lawyer who lives in Torre del Greco, near Naples, with an old nurse who takes care of him. He was President of Italy's Chamber of Deputies when Mussolini dissolved it, never collaborated with the Fascists. Italy well remembered the election speech of this last pre-Fascist President of the Chamber in 1920: "All shall feel their love for this our land-cradle of us all and deathbed of our fathers-grow more tender as crisis threatens. . . ." Scattered critics complained that "he never did anything bad [because] he never...
...Benito Mussolini was the posthumous victim of some inside dopery. Myriam Petacci, sister of his last mistress, Clara, who was killed with him, declared that Benny was really rather a tinhorn. "He was very nice to her and sent her lots of love notes and flowers," she said, "but Clara got very little money from him, and the jewels were paste...
...Manon at the Opera-Comique. Next fall Schipa plans to make a U.S. concert tour. Schipa is defiant of reporters who want to make something of his wartime singing in Italy. Says he: "I am no Communist! I am no Fascist! I sing good and Mussolini give me a medal! So what...
Robert Young (the U.S. State Department) just happens to be standing on the sidelines as an American embassy employe when Mussolini makes his 1922 March on Rome. At the time, Diplomat Young is flirting with both Sylvia Sidney (the Militant Left) and Ann Richards (the International Set). An amiable, easygoing fellow, Robert doesn't instantly spot Mussolini as a menace to world peace. But Sylvia can see the big issues as quick as a flash. In fact, she is so shocked by Robert's hazy ideological thinking that she sorrowfully washes her hands of him. On the rebound...
When the news of Italy's surrender finally comes, San Fernando celebrates. Farkas' Italian friend is in fact a Communist, and sets up shop as the local commissar. Rumors fly fast: Mussolini has killed himself; Hitler has taken poison; the British will arrive any minute, accompanied by the Chief Rabbi of London and the entire Navy. San Fernando strings up a few Fascists, hangs out homemade Allied flags, dances in the streets...