MUSSOLINI’S WIDOW
REMAINING ON ISCHIA ROME, July 5. Mussolini’s widow, Rachelle Mussolini, who is living with her two children. Romano and Anna Maria, under detention on Ischia, off Naples, is being released under the Italian amnesty. Rachelle, after the Duce’s death in 1945, was captured by partisans while attempting to enter Germany. The partisans did not consider her a Fascist criminal and passed her on 1o the Allied military authorities. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Express says that Mussolini’s widow, when told she was free to go to the mainland, declined. She said: “ Ischia is not unpleasant, especially now that it is the bathing season. Besides. 1 do not know where else to go.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26198, 8 July 1946, Page 5
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