THE DUCE’S DAUGHTER
Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, wife of Count Ciano, according to reports which have reached London, is causing a split in Fascist councils, which may in the end affect the whole course of the war. Ribbentrop and Ciano, it is declared, forced Mussolini into war against Britain in opposition to the advice of Edda, who has broken with her husband because of this. Edda, like her mother, and unlike her father, who is an avowed atheist, is a devout Catholic, and fully aligns herself with the attitude that Bolshevism is the antiChrist at large. When Hitler allied himself with Stalin she turned violently anti-German, and that is why, since Italy entered the war, she has withdrawn entirely from public life. Donna Rachel, the Duce’s docile wife, is sid- , ing with Edda, and they are trying to persuade the Duce that he should be on the side of Britain and religion.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 December 1940, Page 4
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151THE DUCE’S DAUGHTER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 December 1940, Page 4
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