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...hour had come when the truth was more useful than propaganda. With his back to the Alps, Benito Mussolini last week ladled out the truth. He did it sparingly, and he mixed it with apologies and name-calling.* But one of the greatest strutters on the world's stage at last came down to earth...
...This is not a speech," Mussolini told the National Council of Corporations in a voice that wheezed but did not falter. "I am going to review the first 30 months of war with statistics. . . . We are the only country which gives exact figures of losses in communiques...
...this were a matter of pride to Mussolini, then the statistics he gave of war losses for a nation of 44,000,000 were not: Army deaths, 40,588; Navy deaths, 33,500; Air Force deaths, 20,124; Italians taken prisoner, 232,778; Army wounded, 80,772; missing in action...
Less candid was Mussolini when he quoted, and then answered, Winston Churchill's threat (TIME, Dec. 7) of "prolonged, scientific and systematic" bombing of southern Italy. Said Mussolini: "We have . . . shelters that can resist the biggest bombs." Other omissions...
...Germany," said Mussolini, "will give powerful assistance in the form of antiaircraft artillery to insure Italian defenses." He did not mention an estimated 250,000 German troops now in Italy to resist invasion-or to shoot Italians who do not fight. The arrival of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring and of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler last week was expected to mean complete German control of military and civilian defenses. Germans realize that successful completion of the Allied invasion of North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants...