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Able, Rome-wise New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews spent weeks digging out the facts in the strange and murky death of Mussolini's son-in-law, flashy Count Galeazzo Ciano (TIME, Jan. 17). Last week Matthews cabled his findings from Rome. Their gist...
Under Fascism, money could buy almost anything, even a man's life. Someone spent millions trying to save Ciano. He almost escaped death. But there was treachery within treachery and behind it the implacable figure of Benito Mussolini, who sealed his son-in-law's fate...
...Verona last January, it was Caruso who had the job of executing Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, whom Hitler had condemned to death. Calmly, Caruso sent a bullet into the back of Cianos head as the latter sat astraddle a chair; cooly he fired a coup de grâce when Ciano's squirming spoiled the accuracy of the first...
Charlie Evans, Cockney dustman, plugged steadily at his job of collecting garbage in Chelsea borough. He worried a bit about his son Charles, his son-in-law George, both in the Royal Navy, both probably somewhere in the Channel. But what got him proper hot was a report that Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted to go to France with the troops.† Said Evans: " 'E knows 'e mustn't go out of the country. 'E's Minister of Defense, and if they tried something 'ere where would we be without 'im? In times...
Grenadier Major William Sidney, son-in-law of Malta's Governor, Field Marshal the Viscount Gort, received the Victoria Cross "for superb courage and utter disregard of danger ... on the Anzio beachhead...