Word: mussolini
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...brief moment it looked as if Britain had chosen retaliation and prestige. London suggested that the Vatican be lighted so that R.A.F. bombs would not hit the area. Since Mussolini would object strenuously if Vatican lights acted as beacons, the Vatican remained dark...
Snarling at Russia's flanks, two jackals last week tried to muster courage to spring for the kill. Big Russia was bleeding from wounds made by Nazi fangs, but there was enough fight in the old bear to frighten Japan and Bulgaria. Benito Mussolini, who has got used to being called a jackal, must have grinned at their behavior...
...very day that Il Mondo appeared, the New York Post published on its front page an interview in which Generoso Pope declared: "The quicker Hitler and the Axis powers are destroyed the better off the world will be. And when I say Axis powers that includes Mussolini...
Actually Publisher Pope had made no overnight about-face. If he once catered to the pro-Fascist sympathies of many of his subscribers, he publicly expressed his embarrassment when Italy joined Hitler in the war, when Mussolini took up antiSemitism. Avowed Fascists gradually disappeared from his papers and his U.S.-born, U.S.-educated son Fortune (24 years old, 6 ft. 2 in. tall) was given more & more editorial authority...
Last week Il Mondo, disbelieving Generoso Pope's "newfound loyalty," challenged him to print his denunciation of Mussolini in his own papers in Italian. A couple of days later...