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...Confusion. The Wehrmacht had used the interim since Benito Mussolini's passing to entrench itself in strategic Northern Italy. If the Allies had been ready to invade at that time, Italy might well have fallen like a ripe plum. Now they would face at least organized German resistance. Now Italy may not only be fought over by the Allies and Germans, but perhaps be torn first by civil...
...Benito Mussolini's last interview as Duce was published last week. * On June 6, a month and a half before his downfall, Il Duce talked to a correspondent of Lugano's Carriere del Ticino, a minor Swiss, Italian-language newspaper. He was suffering from stomach ulcers, appeared lean and sad. But, above all, he seemed anxious to justify his great mistake...
...automobile bearing five Fascist bullyboys and a kidnapped man raced out of Rome. The gang leader was vicious, U.S.-born Amerigo Dumini, henchman of Benito Mussolini. The victim was eloquent, anti-Fascist Giacomo Matteoti, leader of Italy's liberal and left-wing parties. His body, burned and headless, was eventually found in a ditch near Rome. His assassins were convicted but were soon freed...
...next dictator to fall"or the one after the next"may be Spain's Francisco Franco. Spain's political exiles, down the long list of factions from Monarchists to Communists, last week made plans on the hope that the decline of Hitler and the fall of Mussolini would pave the way for them to unseat Franco...
Some participants on the schedule: Belgian appeals court President Henri Rolin (whom Hitler blitzed out); Italian Art Critic Lionello Venturi (whom Mussolini hounded out); Spanish Scholar Alfredo Mendizabal (whom Franco locked out); France's Surrealist Andre Masson, Mathematician Jacques Hadamard, Playwright Henri Bernstein, Novelist Julian Green; America's Philosopher James Bissett Pratt (Williams), Poet-Journalist James Rorty, Scholar Henri Maurice Peyre (Yale), Poet Critic John Peale Bishop...