Word: mussolini
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...stage with care. For a week they plugged the new "Republican Fascism." Then, when Joe Goebbels' men judged the temper right, they played a muffled recording of the Duce's voice, followed by the crashing notes of Giovinezza and brisk translations in all important languages. Said Mussolini in his supervised 15-minute comeback...
...Mussolini is at liberty and his delivery to the Anglo-U.S. Allies . . . has been frustrated...
...mill ground thrilling details: how the loyal Führer "himself prepared the plan for freeing his friend"; how Italian guards had orders to shoot the ex-Duce if anyone tried to free him; how "SS Commandos," despite those orders, whisked off their man "without a scratch"; how grateful Mussolini had movingly phoned the Führer after his release. The Berlin claim fitted into Adolf Hitler's unfolding scheme for Italy under Nazi control. That scheme called for a puppet Fascist regime, set up in Mussolini's name but probably under direction of one of Fascismo...
Bern relayed a story that the Germans may have found Benito Mussolini in the Braschi Fortress outside Rome. The Daily Mail said that the ex-Duce had been trans ported to the Ponza Islands, a volcanic cluster in the Tyrrhenian Sea between Ostia and Naples. War Correspondent John Steinbeck had a similar story. He had gone with an Allied landing party to Ventotene Island, one of the Ponza group. Said Correspondent Steinbeck: he had missed Benito Mussolini by less than twelve hours. "I talked with a number of inhabitants. They said Mussolini assured them he would return to power...
Said the Foreign Office in London: it had no information on Benito Mussolini's whereabouts. At no time had he been in Allied hands...