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Said Propagandist Roosevelt: This is an appropriate time to address a word to Italians. Mussolini, for personal gain, betrayed his own people and handed over his country to Hitler. The Italian people, largely peace-loving, are not responsible for their present plight. The United Nations hope that Italy can be restored to a "respected" place as a member of Europe's family of nations...
...troops could smoke with out a bomb blast blowing the cigarets out of their fingers. This was the "prolonged, scientific and shattering" bombing which Winston Churchill had threatened six months before. It had come with a fury such as no spot on earth had experienced before. "Impregnable" Pantelleria, Benito Mussolini's Gibraltar in what he once called Mare Nostrum, was doomed...
...early Neolithic culture, conquered in the course of history by Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Spaniards, Turks and Italians, a stepping-stone from Africa to Europe and a vital traffic control on one of the sea's busiest highways, was in Allied hands. It was a stone under Mussolini's Italian boot. His toe is certain to be tromped on. His heel is in hot water, his bottom fair game for a pincers movement...
...garrison at Pantelleria, told to "hold the line" by Mussolini, did so with commendable valor, an indication that the universally maligned and notoriously misled Italian troops will not necessarily wilt away before the first invasion troops...
...whose "nationalism does not whisper because their country is small," the Albanians had never accepted the Fascist conquest of 1939. Now patriot resistance, fanned by new hope, was mounting. It could be measured by Rome's frantic hunt for a popular puppet leader. For Prime Minister in Tirana Mussolini chose tricky, turncoat Ekrem Libohova, once ex-King Zog's Foreign Minister. This was Albania's fourth "government...