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...wild mountains behind Tirana, baggy-trousered clansmen gathered last week, 80,000 strong, knives in their sashes, rifles across their backs. In the villages a restive folk hanged Benito Mussolini in effigy. Schoolboys ran off to the hills to join the guerrillas. Fearful Italian troops clapped hundreds in jail, closed the schools, imposed curfews on the villages. Like the rest of subjugated Europe, the smallest Balkan nation was girding for liberation...
...When the Mussolini regime came into power in 1926, Salvemini left the country and came to the United States. Here, he has taken an active stand against Mussolini and Italy, frequently contributing articles to such magazines as The Nation and the New Republic, expounding his views...
Italy has six other marshals. Mussolini last week recalled five of them to active service.* Most of these men had been disgraced previously to cover up Italian defeats. Some of them have the backing of financial and industrial groups which might desert Mussolini if they could make a better deal. But on active duty, whether they like it or not, they must share with Mussolini the burdens and onus of final disaster. The five...
...Aged (77) Marshal Emilio De Bono, a bumbler who was the first Army general to join Mussolini's "March on Rome." He was head of Government police when Italy's socialist martyr, Giacomo Matteotti, was murdered just 19 years...
Feeble Alternatives. Only a few non-Fascist political figures, liberal or conservative, have survived Mussolini's more than 20 years of one-man rule. Among the few in Italy are Vittorio Orlando and Ivanoe Bonomi, both pre-Mussolini premiers; bearded Count Dino Grandi, onetime Ambassador to London, and intellectual Giuseppe Bottai, former Minister of Education. All are ineffective and out of touch with the Italian people...