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...eleven touring dates, also had one with an examining board: he was in the hands of the FBI as a potentially dangerous enemy alien. His second wife, American Doris Leak Pinza, and his mother-in-law described him as an enthusiastic, 100% American. "He never even met Mussolini," declared his wife. Fretted her mother: "I hope they don't hurt his feelings. He is very shy and easily hurt...
...Wonder. "Rome will make the peace," Mussolini had said. But 1) the failure of England to fall promptly after France collapsed, and 2) the entrance of the U.S. into the war were factors that no amount of chest thumping could counteract. From a symbol of greatness Mussolini by last week had become a laughingstock to millions of Italians. His daughter, Edda Ciano, was aware of the shame, prayed for an hour each day in a Roman cathedral. Her husband, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, appeared everywhere flanked by secret-service men. He was as bitter as the people. "No wonder...
...Italians believed this story, but later there were eyewitnesses when Mussolini reviewed troops bound for Russia. He had watched them from the steps of the pink marble villa he built for Claretta Petacci. Ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-trained, the troops stumbled when they tried to goose-step. "It doesn't much matter," said Mussolini. But not long after, periods of depression engulfed him. By last week he was surly, as likely to fly into tantrums as he was when Angelica Balabanoff found him sleeping under bridges in Switzerland; when Rachele Guidi shuddered as he spat at priests...
Died. Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, 43, ex-Governor General of Italian East Africa and Viceroy of Ethiopia; of tuberculosis; in Kenya Colony, East Africa. Mussolini's most ardent supporter in the House of Savoy, the tall, slim "Fascist Duke" was believed by many to have been given his African job as grooming for the Italian throne. But in Ethiopia he lost all but 17,000 of his 100,000 troops, surrendered to the British...
Mister I was undoubtedly designed for propaganda as well as pleasure, but the gruff Gestapo is too charmingly outfoxed to be taken seriously. The Gestapo head, biding his time, huffs: "Rome wasn't built in a day-even by Mussolini...