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Looking around for U.S. reaction, OWI grabbed a column by the New York Post's Samuel Grafton, who wrote: "The moronic Fttle king who has stood behind Mussolini's shoulder for 21 years has moved forward one pace." OWI added an epithet of its own: "Marshal Badoglio, a high-ranking Fascist, has been named successor." It also quoted one John Durfee, described as "the American political commentator," as saying that Mussolini's fall was not regarded in the U.S. as an event of much importance...
...epithets and propaganda line. New Deal-hating Roy Howard's New York World-Telegram ran five stories and an editorial in one issue. To most critics the main point was that OWI had muffed its best chance to do an effective propaganda job. Whatever the fall of Mussolini meant to John Durfee, it meant plenty to Axis, neutral and captive citizens.* The symbol of Fascism was through. OWI might have pounded that home to them in their own languages-as BBC did from Britain...
...same press conference the President served notice that all the machinery to punish Axis leaders was not simply machinery. He handed reporters a statement: "There are now rumors that Mussolini and members of his Fascist gang may attempt to take refuge in neutral territory. One day Hitler and his gang and Tojo and his gang will be trying to escape from their countries. I find it difficult to believe that any neutral country would give asylum to or extend protection to any of them. I can only say that the Government of the United States would regard the action...
...French Journalist André Rabache: "What you [French] want is one man, one lone man, respected and paternal, who will canalize and coordinate your energies and harness them to the immense task already undertaken by Hitler and Mussolini...
...Benito Mussolini: "I am sure that Imperial Italy's fortune will always be greater under your infallible leadership...