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...Dorlans. The Duce began by ticking off King Vittorio Emanuele, presumably as insurance against the unlikely prospect that the sour-faced little monarch decides either to abdicate or convert his House of Savoy into a bargain basement for peace terms. Mussolini pointedly recalled a decree of May 10, 1936, which elevated him to rank jointly with the King as "first marshal of Italy." Thus the King (constitutionally Commander in Chief of all armed forces) can legally make overtures to the Allies only with the consent and participation of the Duce...
...Marshal Enrico Caviglia, World War I hero of Vittorio Veneto, a spokesman for such industrialists as Count Volpi di Misurata...
...Axis force in Tunisia is known, probably, to only a few Germans. The Allies announced that 30,000 prisoners had been captured in all Tunisia since the breaching of the Mareth Line, and unofficial estimates placed Axis battle casualties in the same period at 10,000. The Italian Vittorio Veneto Division was said to have been virtually destroyed. These were losses for Kesselring, but not cataclysmic ones. His remaining force of approximately 175,000 was outnumbered by perhaps 2-to-1. But, considering its advantageous positions, it was by no means broken. It contained crack Austrian and Italian mountain troops...
...loss of the last remnant of African empire squashed Mussolini's already crawling prestige. For "El Piccolo," King Vittorio Emanuele, who docilely hitched his destiny to Mussolini's bombast, it meant that he could no longer call himself "King-Emperor...
...Italian soldiers. Inside Rome he "very coldly spent some time visiting the sights of the Eternal City." As British tourists have done for years, he visited the tombs of Keats and Shelley, admired the stairs leading from the Piazza di Spagna, shuddered at the architectural bad taste of the Vittorio Emanuele Monument, roamed happily through the Coliseum and the ancient ruins in the Roman Forum. At last having tossed a coin into the Trevi fountain (which all tourists do to make sure that they will return to Rome), Penny pedaled off across town to Vatican City...