Word: mussolini
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...With Mussolini out, Fillmore Calhoun is on his way back to Rome for TIME...
...when France was collapsing and Britain was girding for invasion. He saw clearly that "it is inevitable that Italy will be involved; Il Duce has been building for this war as surely as Hitler"-and he was in the crowd beneath the balcony of the Palazzo Venetia when Mussolini delivered his stab in the back to France and called Italy to arms "to safeguard her honor, interests, and future...
Three weeks later Calhoun was kicked out of the country for a story that called Mussolini that "elderly butcher boy of Fascism" - and rather than send another correspondent, we closed the Rome Bureau. In the face of wartime censorship there was no chance in Italy for TIME'S kind of reporting...
...months had passed since Mussolini's fall. Now Winston Churchill had come before the House of Commons to give account of the blood and tears it took to score this victory, to warn of the sacrifices yet to be demanded, to make bold and confident prophecy...
Winston Churchill puffed home from America last week. Waiting for him was a debate in the House of Commons on 1) the campaign in Italy; 2) the "escape" of Mussolini; 3) relations of the U.S. and Britain with Russia; 4) home-front use of manpower...