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Sound Scoop. For 18 days, during the crisis, Kaltenborn scarcely left the CBS studios. He made 102 broadcasts of two minutes to two hours each. Able to trans late Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini as they came hot off the short wave (luckily there were no sun spots to destroy reception), he gave the radio public an instant summary of their talk and its meaning. The U.S. public had never listened so widely or so intensely to radio news before, and it bought more receiving sets during the crisis than in any previous three weeks of radio history...
...More than ever it was apparent that the hope for the underground, and for all Italian democrats, lies first in unconditional surrender, followed by military occupation. After that, if the Allies are wiser than they were in North Africa, the Italian people can speak for themselves. On that day Mussolini's epitaph can read...
Benito Juarez Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, born July 29, 1883, tasted the grey bread of the poor in his early youth and never forgot it. From his part-time blacksmith father he learned atheism and anarchy. From his schoolteacher mother he learned enough culture to become, first a grade-school teacher, then a journalist. He sold out the policy of his first important newspaper (Avanti), official organ of the Italian Socialist Party, for a reported price of $8,000 a month...
...Cordell Hull, slightly stooped at 71, war has brought no athletic privation. He still plays a waspish game of croquet, still addresses his opponent's ball as Hitler or Mussolini before walloping...
...remaining unused for lack of effective demand. And Socialist Laski jumps to the conclusion that, if this machine remains in private hands, the movement toward an American imperialism will be swift. World War II is a battle against counterrevolution, a battle in which the collapse of Hitler and Mussolini will mean no more than the end of an important stage in clearing the decks for a new society...