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Three Men had bypassed their future. Benito Mussolini was the Man of the Year-of a special sort. He had contributed heavily toward the sanity of the world; the bullying menace that ended with pie all over his face. What had entered the stage so pompously, dressed to "live like a lion," now fell through the trapdoor in truest slapstick fashion. For a while, the trains had arrived on time, and then the plane came almost too late...
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini appeared in the first convincing evidence of their September reunion in Germany. Three snips of a German newsreel featured: 1) Adolf's onetime handyman, 2) Adolf's handshake, 3) Adolf's hand-dance...
...first year Guinea Gold had five extras. The headlines: ALLIED FORCES TAKE TUNIS AND BIZERTE, ALLIED FORCES LAND IN SICILY, MUSSOLINI RESIGNS, ITALY SURRENDERS, AUSTRALIAN TROOPS CAPTURE...
Foot was out as editor of the Standard. He had been disclosed as "Cassius," author of last month's Tory-scorching bestseller, The Trial of Mussolini, in which the defense summons Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Sir Samuel Hoare, Viscount Simon and many another resounding name as character witnesses for the Duce. In 1940 Foot and two other Standard men, using the name of "Cato," wrote Guilty Men, an indictment of prewar appeasers, blunderers and incompetents, including several attacked again by Cassius. That time, Beaverbrook had carefully looked the other...
...Black Shirt. Successively a Conservative, Laborite and Socialist, Sir Oswald emerged in 1932 as the firebrand founder of the blackshirted British Union of Fascists. He broadcast his admiration for his friends Hitler and Mussolini, tried to put his country in the Axis orbit. His hoodlums attacked labor meetings, were attacked in turn. Wherever Sir Oswald went, a kind of hate rose that was strange to Britain...