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Show One Axis Leader Down Two to Go rT1r.T , ? 1 u f: H ' j sj , j; j x . "1 . ' r . - - - - - - i The sudden political demise of Benito Mussolini makes him the first Axis dictator 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. Eight: Benito Mussolini who took advantage of the unrest of World War I to create a dictatorship and now finds himself overthrown by similar forces in World War II. |