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...morning (April 29), in a sun-drenched square not far from Milan's center, where 22 years ago Editor Benito Mussolini launched the Black Shirt March on Rome, his battered, bullet-riddled corpse sprawled in public display. His head rested on the breast of his mistress, comely Clara Petacci, who had died with him. Around him stretched the bodies of 16 of his Black Shirt henchmen...
...Beinto Mussulinis whereabouts. But now it urged the controlled Italian press to talk volubly on Benito Mussolini's love life. Practically every paper added details to a tale familiar to gossips: Quite by chance in a Roman swimming pool, Benito Mussonlini met voluptuous curly haired Claretta Petacci, daughter of an obscure but ambitious Roman family...
...Petacci family prospered, moved to a palace on Monte Mario. Claretta's physician brother became well-to-do. Claretta's mother became unofficial autocrat of Italian movies. Her sister Maria pleased the Duce, too. She became a radio and film star...
Epilogue. The Italian press reported that the carabinieri, pressing the Badoglio dictatorship's drive against blackshirts, had now arrested the sisters Petacci. Commented the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung: the deliberate blackening of Benito Mussolini's grey reputation is a rebuff to the Nazis, who still pretend that the ex-Duce is a great man; it is also a shift in political attitude that "may point to coming events...
...Among other women in his life: Revolutionist Angelica Balabanoff; Barmaid Rachele Guidi, his common-law wife (later legal) for ten years; the brilliant exiled Jewess, Margherita Sarfatti; the sisters Maria and Francesca Ferroni; and slim, brown-eyed Claretta Petacci, daughter of a former Vatican surgeon...