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Here came one of the strangest curiosities of World War II. On Monday, April 21, Greek General Tsolakoglou capitulated to the Germans. But either the Germans did not tell the Italians, or Mussolini, anxious to win his own capitulation, did not tell his people. So Mussolini, who had vowed "to crush the kidneys" of the Greeks, went right on hurling his soldiers against the stubborn Greek wall, until he had lost 6,000 men. On Wednesday, April 23, when the Greek situation was clearly hopeless, General Tsolakoglou finally surrendered to the Italians...
Then he turned the full force of his scorn on Germany's partner: "This whipped jackal, Mussolini, who to save his own skin made all Italy a vassal State of Hitler's Empire, comes frisking up at the side of the German tiger with yelpings not only of appetite . . . but even of triumph." A realist as always when he meets reversals, Churchill minced no words in describing Britain's peril. "You know I never try to make out that defeats are victories. . . . It is certain that fresh dangers . . . may come upon us in the Mediterranean...
...narrator offers an assortment of Nostradamus' predictions about the present war. One reads: "In Germany a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times. Roman power shall be completely abased, a great neighbor imitates his footsteps." That supposedly forecasts the rise of Hitler and Mussolini...
Thus last week, in the overcrowded obituary column of the Times, smart Londoners read with regret of the end of "Little Fortune," the genial and popular headwaiter who for years had greeted them at banquets at the Savoy. A short, bald, smiling man, he looked not unlike Benito Mussolini. But Headwaiter Picchi's hatred for Mussolini cost him his life...
...mark the second anniversary of his birth, which occurred three days before Mussolini drove his parents, Albania's Zog and Geraldine, into exile, Crown Prince Skander, a curly-headed refugee who has visited as many capitals as an Axis foreign minister, climbed on a chair at London's Dorchester House, sat for his picture (see cut) like a good fellow...