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...This," declared his Lordship, "is what Mr. Churchill said about that resolution: 'The effect was shattering on the Continent of Europe-shattering to our prestige. We have actual proof now that Mussolini was so affected by it that he definitely came to the conclusion that Britain might be counted out, and it is probable that it had a decisive influence on his decision to bring Italy in on the side of Germany...
...Verona last January, it was Caruso who had the job of executing Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, whom Hitler had condemned to death. Calmly, Caruso sent a bullet into the back of Cianos head as the latter sat astraddle a chair; cooly he fired a coup de grâce when Ciano's squirming spoiled the accuracy of the first...
...Premier of Italy, 71-year-old Ivanoe Bonomi, emerged literally out of the underground. In 1912, the Socialist Party expelled the managing editor of its newspaper, Avanti! ("Forward!"), the former school teacher and lawyer Ivanoe Bonomi. His successor : Benito Mussolini. In 1922, mild-mannered, politically independent Bonomi lost the job of Premier which he had held for eight stormy months. His successor: Mussolini. In obscurity during the era of Fascism Triumphant, Avvocato Bonomi eked out a living by ghosting routine briefs for young lawyers whose principal juristic equipment was a Black Shirt. Enter the Northerners. Last week, to the Grand...
...raise them, merely succeeded in damaging them with grappling hooks. From the 16th Century on, divers brought to the surface excited reports and portable relics. In 1896 the eminent marine engineer, Vittorio Malfatti, worked out a feasible plan for raising the sunk galleys. But it remained for Benito Mussolini to carry out the plan. By his order a Roman drainage tunnel, which led out under a mountain, was reopened. Four huge electric pumps were installed. With his own hand II Duce started the pumps (1928). A little less than three years later the water-logged galleys were raised...
Pietro Mascagni, 80-year-old composer of Cavalleria Rusticana, who has long been a favorite of Mussolini's Black Shirts...