DUCE'S DAUGHTER
EDDA RELEASED UNDER AMNESTY STILL A FASCIST (Rec. 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, July 19. Handsome, penniless, Edda Ciano, aged 38, • toidi the ' Daily Express's ' Rome correspondent "I am still a Fascist. Why not? But the world ia rather tired of Mussolinis, do you not think? T am retiring from polities, but there are Fascists in Italy who are fighting on to the death." Edda has just been released under the Italian Government's amnesty, after a year on the prison island of Lipari. She is now kept by her 72-years-old mother-in-law, Countess Caroline Ciano, with whom she shares a small room in a Rome nursing\home, run by nuns. Edda said she approved of the theft of Mussolini's body from its grave. " Any man deserves a better ■ grave than they gave him."
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Evening Star, Issue 25849, 20 July 1946, Page 7
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131DUCE'S DAUGHTER Evening Star, Issue 25849, 20 July 1946, Page 7
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