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Recently at this studio it was decided to reopen the completed Bob Hope-Dorothy Lamour comedy, They Got Me Covered, for addition of a sequence depicting, perhaps prophetically, the flight of Mussolini from Italy. In preparing the actor for the role, the makeup and wardrobe departments used TIME, Dec. 14, for the most characteristic pose of II Duce...
...than in prostrate France. Yet two Frenchmen, both of whom the U.S. disliked and distrusted, rose to the top of a soiled political heap. One of them was Pierre Laval, who rose to the honor of a meeting with Hitler to which the tragicomic Benito Mussolini was not invited. If Hitler wins, Pierre Laval may yet be a successful man, Jean François Darlan's deal with General Eisenhower might have profited him eventually, but his award was an assassin's bullet...
...rich in monuments and relics of a nobler Rome carried little weight with Britons, who had lost many of their own national shrines to Nazi bombs. Also unimpressive to most Britons was the suggestion that Rome might be saved by a trade: in return for Rome's immunity, Mussolini might move himself and his unhappy Government to some other city. If such a move would disrupt Italian life and resistance sufficiently to make it even worth discussing, bombs on Rome would do immeasurably more...
...argument against sparing any Italian city was produced last week by the Italian press. Mussolini's own Popolo d'ltalia reported that the people of ravaged Turin welcomed the arrival of the city's first German ack-ack units. Already, in short, the R.A.F. had made Italy a minor second, front...
...Germans took over the Italian air fleet of 3,000 bombers and fighters and demanded control of the island of Pantelleria, Italian naval base in the Mediterranean. Mussolini was either too ill (of ulcers or mental distress) or too busy to attend the reception for Pierre Laval in Germany (see p. 23). More likely he was too busy, for he still behaved like an aged errand,boy. He shook up his Party directorate and was reported to have fired General Vittorio Ambrosio, Army Chief of Staff, and General Ettore Bastico, Marshal of Italy and onetime Governor of Libya, for "unprincipled...