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Show One Axis Leader Down Two to Go - i.'WIUI .IIIMIIl7lWWWM , iCljt V"--'?, JfYi Twli - - Jt.... - . - The sudden political demise of Benito Mussolini makes him the first Axis dlctalor to fall under the military and Intellectual might of the Allied nations. Left: King Victor Emmanuel of Italy who accepted Mussolini's resignation and appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio, center, as the new premier of Italy. Although Al-though Badoglio announced that "the war continues," as he proclaimed martial law, he was never a member of the official high ranking Italian fascist group which surrounded Mussolini. He has been known to have disagreed dis-agreed with the former premier several times. Right: Benito Mussolini who took advantage of the unrest of World War I to create dictatorship and now finds himself overthrown by similar forces In World War II. |