Word: mussolini
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...months ago. The German people, expecting invasion, harried by bombs and grieving over the dead in Russia, resented the Führer's reluctance to visit stricken cities or the Eastern Front, his isolation in bomb-safe Berchtesgaden with chosen aides and such infrequent visitors as gaunt Benito Mussolini...
Salvemini, who calls himself an 18th century liberal, is teaching history at the University of California during the present term. He was a member of the Italian Parliament from 1919 to 1921 and was exiled in 1925 by Mussolini for his liberal views...
...boss of these operations, handsome, silvery-haired, 46-year-old Nate Twining runs his show from a regular Mussolini of a desk-a huge arc of walnut originally built to the specifications of an Italian general. Under its glass top are maps; above the maps Twining allows nothing but a pen and inkwell to linger...
...little King who had welcomed Fascism, called Benito Mussolini cousin and condoned the stab in France's back had held firm against all pressure. He had shrewdly echoed Winston Churchill's pledge of last February: When "we enter Rome ... we shall . . . review the whole Italian political position." No man could say when Rome would fall. Even then Vittorio Emanuele would keep his title, would not abdicate...
From Washington the play flashes back to Rome the day Mussolini marched in, to Berlin when Naziism still wore swaddling clothes, to Paris on the eve of the Munich pact. It shows the young diplomat Alex Hazen (Dennis King) marrying not the serious-minded girl he loves (Barbara O'Neil) but her more conventional best friend (Cornelia Otis Skinner). The women become estranged; later the other woman becomes Alex's mistress. But not till the reunion in Washington is the true nature of their roles brought to light: it was less their feeling for Alex that actuated...