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Thus, at the age of five, died Benito Mussolini's infant colony. There was still probably a battle to be fought. Italian troops from Addis Ababa fled north to meet the Italian troops fleeing down from Eritrea. Presumably the two forces planned to join for one last stand...
...Nazi infiltration into every executive post," wrote Correspondent Whitaker, "was made possible by persuading Mussolini of the advantage in principle of merging Fascism and Naziism." By the middle of December the Nazis controlled, not only the Italian Foreign Office and the Ministries of War, Communications and Finance, but 50% of Italian industry. The week before Christmas they struck...
...Hitler had to take over. The Axis position in North Africa and the Mediterranean had become desperate. The Axis position in Italy had become worse than desperate-the Italians were knocked out and ready for separate peace. Only Mussolini could prevent separate peace, and he could be maintained in power only by the arrival of the Germans in force...
...Italian doctor told Correspondent Whitaker about a peasant boy whose feet and hands had been amputated after frostbite in Albania. No winter equipment had been provided for the Army. The boy raised the stump of his arm and screamed: "We're going to kill Mussolini, the murderer." Whitaker heard another story of a wounded man who rose from his cot in an Albanian hospital and spat in the face of Mussolini's daughter, Countess Ciano...
Although these were isolated cases, Whitaker thinks that Mussolini has the personal loyalty of scarcely more than a few hundred Italians. The people are done with him, ready to throw him out, but they have no one else to turn to. After 19 years of Fascism they are helpless, without leaders, without political faith. They have no hope even in the royal family. A prince who had been a member of the royal household told Whitaker: "The King is worse than gaga. He is a cynical, selfish, dirty old man. He cares nothing for Italy or the Italian people...