MUSSOLINI’S FATE
ITALIAN GENERAL'S STORY LONDON, Sept. 27 An inkpot battle decided Musso’iri’s fate at the last meeting of the Fascis* Grand Council, says Reuter’s correspondent with the Fifth Army. The inside story of the Duce’s downfall is told by an Italian general who commanded the Carabinieri who arrested Mussolini. He said Mussolini went to the council meeting and announced Hitler’s decision not to defend Southern Italy. Pandemonium broke out in the council chamber. Members shouted and threatened each other and threw inkpots. Mussolini tried high-handed tactics. He went home saying, “Well, we have had a meeting. Let us get on with the war.”
Ciano, whom the Italians now call Judas, went with Grandi, and asked the King to intervene. The King insisted that Mussolini should make the request constitutionally. Mussolini reluctantly visited the King and acknowledged that the situation was serious, but he refused to resign “until I have seen it through one way or the other.” The King dismissed Mussolini, who was arrested outside the palace and driven off protesting in a closed car.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22154, 28 September 1943, Page 3
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