Signor Benito Mussolini was a newspaper editor at Milan in 1914, Young Benito was about the fiercest Socialist Italy had ever known. He was rather "like a. tiger. He. had raised the elreulation of "Avanti," his newspaper, fivefold in two years, It was he who did so much by his inspired writings in "Avanti" to. bring Holy into the war on the Allied side, He was to serve asa private and subsequently a corporal of Bersaglier, "He was a brave. soldier, "Tiger" Gort, British Commander-in-Chief in the'Field, was a twenty eight-year-old subaltern inthe Guards when the ultimatum to Germany expired on that fateful midnight. "He was a een young ameer, ut perhaps he was not entirely an= xious to go to war, for he had only been married three years before. quest on the morning of August 4 Hitler left everything and hurried to] barracks with more happiness in his heart than any German soldier, He became quite a good private, They gave him the Iron Cross—and made him a gefreiter (corporal). He was not temperamentally fitted for higher rank,
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