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...held secret meetings and the press blustered about the bread shortage, which it blamed on the British blockade. This week Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, hopped into a car in Madrid and set out for the Italian Riviera to meet Benito Mussolini and his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who undoubtedly would remind the Spaniards of all the favors Italy did for Franco's Spain when Italy seemed bigger potatoes. As Vichy denied Marshal Petain would join the conference, the Frenchman started for a "few days' rest...
...world, our nation included, is passing through what history may later record as the second stage of a revolutionary movement of the masses-a movement born during World War I and likely to last, with intermittent armistices of one kind or another, for two or three decades more. . . . Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and the Japanese Army leaders are but symbols of this movement. . . . As a world movement the scope of this conflict extends beyond . . . these symbols...
Whose Lake? On June 10, thinking that his team had already won, Benito Mussolini rushed to war, and rashly precipitated this whole new conflict, the Battle of the Mediterranean...
...land the confident Italians began what appeared to be a giant pinch on the Canal. They drove a small British garrison out of British Somaliland, and undertook an invasion of Egypt which stalled at Sidi Barrani. Then came a turning point in the Eastern basin. Benito Mussolini called for an invasion of Greece...
...right that the Italian people should be made to feel the sorry plight into which they have been dragged by Dictator Mussolini, and if the cannonade of Genoa, rolling along the coast, reverberating in the mountains, has reached the ears of our French comrades in their grief and misery, it may cheer them with the feeling that friends, active friends, are near and that Britannia rules the waves...