TALKED DOWN
MUSSOLINI AT MEETING WITH HITLER. RETURN HOME TO MEET ’ DISASTER. LONDON, October 4. Marshal Badoglio in an interview said that the fact that Mussolini was intimidated by Hitler at the meeting of the dictators on July 19 was almost certainly a contributory cause of Mussolini’s downfall. Mussolini originally intended to state plainly that Italy was no longer in a fit condition to continue the war, but Hitler did not allow him to speak and stormed for two hours. By the end of the tirade Mussolini’s courage evaporated, and he said nothing. The knowledge that this had happened undoubtedly precipitated the attack on him at the meeting of the Fascist Grand Council. “The general feeling in Italy against Fascism weo so intense that it needed only the single act of getting rid of Mussolini to bring the whole structure tumbling down,” Marshal Badoglio said. When asked whether the new Italian Government would have a democratic basis, Marshal Badoglio replied: “Emphatically.” He added that he would deal with the matter as soon as possible.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 3
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