Word: mussolini
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...once the British made an effort to get there first: this week they announced that they were laying hands on Madagascar. Thus, on the heels of a Hitler-Mussolini meeting that seemed to presage some great new evil (see p. 29), and a parley of Madagascar-hungry Japanese diplomats in Vichy, the British anticipated one likely Axis move...
Hitler and Mussolini last week revived their old act -The Big Talk. This time it was staged on the Königssee near Salzburg, at Castle Fuschl, which belongs to German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's papa. It was followed by the usual windy notices from their press-agents and the usual cyclone of rumors from their stooges. Mussolini even sent Hitler the tried & tested telegram: "The meeting will be an unforgettable memory...
...France's Foreign Minister, Laval instigated the Franco-Soviet Pact of 1935 which brought French businessmen a billion francs in contracts. Sixteen months in advance he told Mussolini it would be all right to rape Ethiopia, and later set his seal on the deed in the Hoare-Laval Pact with Britain which sanctioned Ethiopia's enslavement...
...Vulcania-Saturnia mission was larger-scale and generously unilateral. No less than 11,000 Italian civilians-men incapable of military service, women & children-marooned in East Africa when Allied troops brought Mussolini's imperial dream crashing down, were to be repatriated gradually from coastal camps. Notable was the fact that the Italian ships were headed round Africa's Cape of Good Hope...
...believe that Mussolini is today a very sick man because, not only is his family tree predominated by people who died young and his own children in poor health; but the Italian leader himself is a victim of syphilis, the professor concluded...