Word: mussolini
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...Hitler had been present, and when the grenade-or was it a Teller mine?-exploded under the table, the explosion tore the pants off everyone present. When Benito Mussolini arrived a short time later, Hitler held up the ragged remnants to show that nothing worse had happened to him. Hitler was verging on a nervous breakdown, terrified of further attempts on his life, had -deserted Berchtesgaden for a heavily guarded Rhineland estate...
...year ago, when the observer visited Franco, there were three of them-a large, autographed photograph of Pope Pius XII, flanked by large, autographed photographs of Hitler and Mussolini. When he called again eight months later the pictures were still there...
...when he went to see Franco less than a month ago, two of Franco's heroes had disappeared. Gone were Hitler and Mussolini. Only the Holy Father remained on Franco's table...
...Benito Mussolini, according to a report from the New York Times' crack Rome Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, lost 50 pounds in the last nerve-racking month of his dictatorship. Source for the story was an Italian army doctor who treated Mussolini's ulcers, heard him complain: "The Italian people is a superficial people in every way, even in religion. They believe in a saint only when, and to the extent that he answers their prayers. . . . They cover themselves with a varnish that has no depth and leaves no trace...
...discreetly to suggest that his country might change its isolationist mind if a Nazi victory seemed imminent. The portraiture in Welles's European travelogue rings clear and true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler. Mussolini astonished Welles by seeming inert, ponderous and static. His close-cropped hair was snow white. In repose, his face fell in rolls of flesh. When the Duce talked, he kept his eyes shut save for moments when he remembered his reputation for staring "dynamically...