The Scandinavian Syndrome

British secret archives, still after more than four decades considered too sensitive to be released, will reveal that in 1943 Winston Churchill had a plan to help train and re-equip Mussolini’s forces.

It will be remembered that during the first half of that year the Fascist dictator was seriously thinking of making overtures to the Allies for a separate peace. Courage, however, was never his strong point, and he was afraid to tell Hitler.