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That morning (Dec. 11, 1941) Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini had done some routine ranting, had roared some routine lies, had returned to their routine aggression-after declaring...
Fascism's most spectacular Special Tribunal in years assembled in Trieste last week. Its purpose: to frighten Italians out of sabotage, insurrection and anti-Fascist activities. The presiding judge: Lieut. General Antonino Tringali-Casanuova. The "criminals": students, antiFascists, Slovene nationalists, Communists. The crimes: a plot against Mussolini's life at Caporetto in 1938; the blowing up of three powder factories in 1940; an attempt to establish a Soviet regime embracing the old Yugoslavia...
Italy had amassed all the necessary ingredients for a first-class revolution. The war effort continued apathetic, ineffectual and, to many Italians, completely senseless. Favored Fascist bigwigs prospered from wartime grafts. Benito Mussolini lost additional face as Nazi officials took over key posts in vital ministries. Inflation increased. The tightened food-rationing system reeled along under the weight of flagrant violations. Military morale, ever feeble, ebbed to a new low as the British Army pushed into Libya...
...Italian people have lost faith in Mussolini, faith in their King, and sometimes it seems ... as though they have lost faith in themselves, except in their capacity to work hard, to breed, to endure hard standards of living and to survive...
...Italy's vaunted military strength (Benito Mussolini boasted that 8,000,000 bayonets would prosecute Italian claims): at no time have there been more than 2,500,000 men in the armed forces, and more than that number could not be equipped...