One wonders where people come up with these stories. Of course, a long-running conspiracy theory holds that Churchill wrote plaintive letters urging Mussolini not to wage war alongside Hitler. (If the dictators ever received such letters, they certainly would have taken every opportunity to publicize them.) But this is the first we’ve heard that Churchill was upset over Mussolini’s demise. Quite the opposite, it appears from eye-witness accounts of his reactions and a letter to his wife. ...
