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...Lean Years. The day after Mussolini declared war, A.B.C. put to sea with a task force of two battleships, a carrier, five cruisers and several destroyers, and swept right up until he almost tickled the instep of the Italian foot. He got no reaction. Such sweeps became the pattern for his fleet. Whenever his ships found Italians, they whipped them. On one occasion Admiral Sir James Fownes Somerville on the Nelson knocked the Italians and escaped with nothing worse than a scare from an Italian torpedo, which missed. Flashed A.B.C.: "Flag to Nelson. Success of your operation should console...
...Mussolini admitted "hard times." In just seven years, his new empire had disappeared again, perhaps for centuries. Once again the King-Emperor was only a King. The Via Mussolini in Addis Ababa had already been renamed Churchill Road. But Mussolini did not speak of that...
...just and Italy is immortal," said Mussolini, the Italian empire is not dead, it is "simply interrupted." "I say, I feel," he said, "that millions of Italians suffer from an indefinable sickness that one calls the African illness...
...Fascisti chanted "Doo-chay, "Doo-chay, Doo-chay I" as before. But they were not distracted from the ills at home. At week's end Mussolini's new party secretary, Carlo Scorza, sickeningly aware of impending invasion, offered the Italian people a prescription to be taken internally. Said...
...Mussolini was not the only Italian whose voice last week echoed Italy's blus tery, tinseled-glory era. In bomb-scarred Milan, II Duce's good friend and admirer, Alfredo Cardinal Schuster, also tried to revive the deflated Italian ego. The 63-year-old Italian Cardinal was born in Rome, son of a Vatican Swiss Guard, whose members come from the Swiss can tons of Zurich and Lucerne...