Word: mussolini
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Once before, you wrote, "Mussolini felt badly" but I let it pass, thinking that perhaps his "fine Italian hand" had become calloused (perhaps petrified) and you were using "feel" as a transitive verb...
...Benito Mussolini was under arrest and not under arrest; in solitary confinement and under house guard; seized while trying to flee Italy and seized in the Quirinal; held for his own safety and held for delivery to the Allies. If he dreamed of asylum somewhere abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt's warning to neutrals against such asylum shattered the dream...
Where was Benito Mussolini...
Wherever Benito Mussolini was, he passed his 60th birthday there. A deflated Mr. Toad, no longer could he swell visibly and let himself go with uplifted voice before supposedly enraptured audiences. From his ex-colleague Adolf Hitler came an anniversary gift: the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, who had written: "I teach you the Superman. . . . Thou hast made danger thy calling; therein is nothing contemptible." But from his ex-people came only bitter remembrance. Milan's Corriere della Sera called him "an aged corrupter," now as good as buried...
...Italian Duke of Aosta, propped up by Mussolini as King Tomislav of Fascist Croatia, handed his resignation to Axis-controlled Ante Pavelich. The Duke had never visited his kingdom...