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MUSSOLINI SENSATION:
American Column from R. M. MacCOLL
The Man With A
Smile Lights Up An Invasion
IA
Washington. NEXT the 40-year-old Clark SMILING navy lleu. 100% off with a group of 150 South Korean guerillas and 30 tenant named Eugeno intelligence ogents-four of them Clark, from Arlington, Vir- women on a long expedition ginia, is America's newest up the west coast of North. hero.
Korea.
The navy has just ro. Soon he was able to build up leased the story of his do other bands from escaped pri ings behind the Red lines in coptured eight important islands soners and wavering Reds. They
Korea.
For five wecka before the landing at Inchon, in the autumn
for the Allies,
Clark reached the Manchurian
cd 1050, Clark lived with the border and sent back informa enemy, sending bolt a stream tion of exceptional value, some of information about the har- of which is still secret, bour defences, gun positions, Before the Inchon landing and channel depths.
Clark, fall and thin-taced,; was
wid
that his mission might
and failure for the
Finally, as the Alilod invasion meaji the differenc between deat approached, he climbed up BLICCOOS the blacked-out Inchon light whole enterprise. Says he nove house and relighted its lamp to "There was nothing for me to help guide the ships to their do but accept. I won't say that destination.
That was only the start.
Is
"Stab-in-the-back'
Made A Martyr
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Milan.
From Charles Foley
from one
their trail.
cholce.
I was hot to go, but I was in forested in having a try at it."
America hails him as a Law- rence the famous Briton who lod ↑ behind-the-lines CRIT paign against the Turks In World War 1.
A by complainis, rind MERICAN saflways, worried
dining-car prices are too high, are..countering with pre-cooked frozen food meals. These mako possible menu price slushes-of- between 20 and 40 percent..
THE VOICE of America is to
broadcast to the world re- cordings of six songs sting by prisoners in Russia's slave Jabour camps and smuggled out to the West. The State Depart- ment
the songs says
are favourites of "the estimated 15,000,000 people in more than 200 slave compar.“
HE BUN has become", such ̈ ́a
Turity,
amic continuous rain, that the New York Herald→ →
Foreign Editor of the Daily Express, London
Now de Gasperi has suddenly all the bronze bouts of Mussolini Tribune publishes a photo of it Such are the plans; a
hiding place to
appearance. of Pope maiding a brier and Togliatt!, the Red ENITO MUSSO- fitting apotheosis, in Fascist another, with the police hot on given way, Donna Rachaele has were recast as heads
been told privately that the Plus
to the leader you could take your BOTLE career of a
body will be restored
ROOTLEGGING did not end "ended. LINI, whose bullet- style, for the
Prohibition family for burial
Here in Washington the police riddled body swung dictator. But the political
Soon the foundries may be arrest
Aubrey Probably de Gasperi did not
28-year-old head down here in paradox is extraordinary,
reckon with the logical result of busy again melting the remain="Turk" Scott, charged with Milan seven years ago this At this very moment when
his surrender. A funeral in the der back, Already there is zald dading to pay sales taxes on be reburied Hitler's mountain eyrie is month, is to
Precappio shrine will rehabili- to be a brisk trade in chips of £39,000 worth of whisley, shortly with full ceremony being dynamited and even
tate Fascism, and may well re- stone from the new sarcophagus. "One of the biggest boot- leggers In the District of the whole Mussolini at Predappio, Italy's shrine his Berlin Chancellery has
An Italian journal is paying Columbia, zay the polloc been razed to avert a re- of Fascism.
£1,500 for rights to the story surgence of Nazism, here I find in Italy that Hitler's partner Mussolini is to be immortalised in the Ber- chtesgaden of the Fascist
This spectacular event in history has not yet been publicly announced. But all arrangements secretly completed.
The
have
been
Government's ap-
State.
What is the explanation? proval coincides with the It falls into three parta. coming elections in Together, they produce a Southern Italy. It hopes startling picture of the
that by this gesture to win over change
by imper- the rapidly rising Fascist ceptible degrees has trans- vote.
formed the scene since Fascism with all its trap- Already, in Predappio, pings was "finally the scene is set. A great thrown" at the end of the sandstone sarcophagus has
been built for the entomb- ment. It bears, with Napoleonic simplicity, the 1883- legend, "Mussolini, 1945."
war.
aver-
During the chase one leg was Mussolini's body to an abbey lost. At last the police traced Pavia, 15 miles from Mikan.
A priest had
Again Mussolini's
This appeared.
sanctuary.
#
given
11
vive
body dis-
"mystique.**
I un-
Service has
Д
Alme the For Predappio was Musso- and plotures of the funeral. NOTING that Britain's No. Government whisked it away, lini's birthplace. A village cup have been offered British Em- tional Health
free wigs, of the it for ever ped in the mountains hoping to remove
pire, South American, and Jap-provided: 84,414 country. rough, Ramagna
anese rights for £1,000. It must New York newspaper headlines from the political scene.
the
Conditioning news Ar soon or n rival newspaper derstand that it was hidden in famous for its hot-blooded poli- be
for Cool British Henda," close lo ako monastery,
anarchists and its will be approached missing leg.RTY child dope addicts, 25 tics, its Pavia, but nobody can be sure commercial acumen.
Only two Ministers know the monks secret, apart from, six
Sworn have been who
to
silence.
PART 2
Public opinion mellows
PART 1 They spat on his grave
gramme
· At each corner the masons have carved the THIS is the saga of the Fascist symbol, the Roman body-snatchers and re- lictor and bundle
a
of aurrectionists. A macabre bound faggots with an axe chapter. in the middle. At each end of the sarcophagus is a
cross,
mourners,
1
Black procession
Then there is the A toe-bone Is
reported to the
boys and ava girls, have polies to have been sold for been
found In New York's several hundred pounds.
the schools In And what became of Dr
montha.
The warrior
Already, in the tourist shops, they are dusting up the post Leccisi, who snatched Musso.
but hever, surely, banal,
(London Express Service)
· past seven
the
the
"No
Bays Hope, "but some of the shots are coming the audience!"
from
cards
of Mussolini's home, of linl's body after the first of its THE HUMAN TOUCH. On TV Bcb Hope--in "dn, up- the iron bedstead he was born four burials? in, of the House of Fascism He was amnestied from prison roarious take-off on the prison with its now peeling Imperial and today has been voted on to riots was dressed as a convict architecture.
the town council of Milan by and shooting it out with an Fascists in recognition of his guards, Suddenly the raises Mussolini glorified Predappio. feat.
imperious hand to halt the gun- INDER the threat of a Com- On the ruins of the local castle. UNDE
And so, back in Predapple, we play. "Hold It," he yells "this munist victory at the polis he built towers and battlements, reach the conclusive episode of is serious." the anti-Fascist coalition began faked heavily for age. He made Mussolini's carect, a life-and-"What's the matter, to break up.
of it a treasure house for gifts death story that history may guards, "you hit?" from admirers all over the find dramatic, tragic, grotesque, De
Christian world Gasperi, Socialist Premier, began a pro-
of concessions to Here, when the 8th Army took Mussolini's outlawed' followers. it, they found portraits of the Today the wheel has almost Duca as a Homan warrior, as en Aztre prince; as a Samurai lead- turned full circle.
ing a cavalry · charged across a Ninety percent of Fascista Japanese alik painting.
old posts, back in their
bottom from top to
of the To Predappio came each year Administration. In these last for Mussolini's birthday -- the few days war pensions have day, July 20, war announced but 'beca awarded the Fascist never his age once he brad militia who formed Mussolini's passed 50 processions from 100,000-strong "private army." all over Italy.
are
regret
2-YEAR
MINIMUM
MARRIAGE PLAN
By A DIVORCE LAWYER'
11,
London. should bevable to obtain TUCH discussion is divorce, provided:
going on now about
MUC
A non-earning wife
la
a remarkable roomed cottage in the Via del the doctors proposals to adequately provided fox,
Inice.
an
the Royal Commission on and
Marriage and Divorce that Even the King and Queen
The pilgrims
Adequate provision has been made for, the maintenance, if a husband and wife living apart agree they want a schooling, and general upbring- divorce they should be Ing of any children. given one.
hid *B,000,000 All these pilgrims would end Here is a solution to this
their plous journey armies
at the unhappy marriage problem. Mussolini family chapel. Today
through"
it is being refurbished for its As the law stands, you have Aa for the acknowledged grentest. occasion It is here to walt quite a while for Fascists, the M.S.I. Party with that Musolini's funtcal Mars divorce to "come their 800,000 members and an will be celebrated, unpredictable voting influence, they talk in terms of adulation of The Maa,
It follows from Proposition No. 1 that neither party would be able to remarry, for at least one year after divorce: And no one should be able to obtain' more than one divorce for in-
BIL compatibility,
Finally, let us put an end to ing divorce suits, 2007 (3) the out-of-date method of try-
After the bloodthirsty lynching of Mussolini's body Triumphant memories of and that of his mistress a Fascist generation which Claretta Petacci outside a
All this has been done quiet- Foreign statesmen who want- ly, in the name of national re-ed to win favour were photo- worshipped Mussolini as he Milan petrol station, the
conciliation. It has been a graphed before the famous four strutted the world stage Government took action,
companied by will crowd into the chapel The new Ministers, Unit mellowing of public opinion. with a host of family ed only in their feverish
Italians these days recall with hatred of Fascism, feared
the low prices, the Italy had to render homage that Mussolini dead.might security and "social" order**
of Predapple. Red carnations
become as sore a problem the past. They remember the glories of Musolini athia Donna Rachaele, the as Mussolini living.
zan3th, Talking Italy to dictator's widow, expecta So they buried him secret- envied place among the Powerd,
boasting her son Vittorio to come ly in a field outside Milan.. bayonets, cending out his over from the Argentine for Á nameless grave without a to win fresh colonies." the funeral Mass. Marshal *cross. They hoped he Graziani, victor of Abys would soon be forgotten. alnia in the days when Mussolini defied and de feated the League of Na-
No good, A ceaseless pro- tlons, has promised to at
'cession of women in black tond,
Mussolini's daughter, came out from Milan. They Countess Edda Clano, will spat on the grave, cursing bring her three sons. Edda Mussolint for causing the is once
a flashing deaths of sons, husbands, figure in Rome society. lovers,
they should also The hearing, of divorce:sults Mussolini' executed her hus- This was too much for
a father and mother. He side by state that they are actually should be conducted; in private Special Commissioners specially band, the playboy. Foreign. the diehard neo-Fascista of mothadly nomentity, during his Bide. Bruno'a tomb is nearby, free to marry, A year would before a panel of two-os three Minister, Count Clano, for Milan On the night of the lifetime, but today a formidable Roman sword and a black ban- But, of course, even after
is surmounted by in bronze give them time for thought trained in law as woll me in social, and economic treason at the time of the first anniversary of their peores years she has been ner: with, the skull and cross- Allled invasión...
problema, leaders" "martyrdom" by bombarding Premier de Gasperi bot
bones of the Fascisti,
The only record of such prD- As a climax to the golemn the Communists, the body with aps
appeals for the restitution An archway stands ready to not be possible to avoid mis
ceedings should be, a confidén- service, war-pilot friends of was torn from its gravej of her
husband's body,... Sho" tako iho diatator's sarcophagus wherefore Proposition' No. 2; Hal shorthand' foto, mely Mussolini's other son Bruno, It was snatched by a band, found she had Italian law on But it may be placed inatond pa
There should be Appeals who was killed flying his hended by
Dr Dominico her alde also a gwing feal one side, so that a rough the Not sooner than two years
ing of public abame at the way can be, driven through own aircraft, will drop two Lecciel, a Milan chartered nation's savage repudiation, in arch to relieve the eased after their marriage a couple Tribunale siso sitting in camera,
may notify their incompatibi- and only in exceptional plane loads of red carna accountant,
defeat of the leader who had pilgrims. tions over the dictator's For three months the neo been kialised for more than 20 Predapple moves with the by, and not less than one ought an appeal tolls to the
times, After the fall of Facian, your siter having done so they ordinary Court of Appeal Fasolete moved Mussolini'g body yours.
shrine,
more
so why should there not be a You walk down an avenue of allar quarantine period be
fore marriage? cypresses from the village. And as you enter the chapel you
My Proposition No. 1 And that the now pilgrimago has already begun. A book, be- All couples should have to side the door contains 1,000, noury their intention to marry fresh: signatures.
at Icast one year before actually. marrying.
PART 3 Revival of the mystique
the vaulted crypt below. Elve TANTER
Rachaele, tomba are there. Donna Eussolini's widow,
in
What is the advantage compelling unfortunate people whose married life has col- lapsed to wash their dirty linen In public? Divorce in a private- and domestic matter.
Sacred to the family dead is when thus declaring theit, Proposition No. 3, then, is:
Mussolini's intention
a
medical,
year's contemplation it will takes altogether,
"cases