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...quandary as to whether she would hold out for her rights under the Treaty of London or accept the Port of Fiume, which had not been promised to her, but which she then claimed. The question was further complicated by the action of the Italian poet, d'Annunzio, in seizing Fiume (Sept. 12, 1919) and annexing it to Italy. These difficulties were smoothed out by the Treaty of Rapallo (November, 1920) negotiated for Italy by Count Sforza, Foreign Minister in the last Giolitti Cabinet, who, in a letter to the YugoSlavian Government, recognized its claims to the adjacent port...
Benito Mussolini: "At Pescara, Italy, I visited poet Gabriele d'Annunzio's birthplace, an humble cottage. I was received by his former governess, shown the household relics. From a window I addressed a crowd: 'Let our reverend thoughts wend their way to d'Annunzio, the heroic soldier, faithful Italian, wonderful poet. Viva...
Ever since Mussolini seized power, Gabriele d'Annunzio has been engaged in a canny campaign to entrench his own popularity with the working classes, which were disgruntled by the brusque labor policy of the black shirted Dictator...
During the Fascist repression, most of the carefully integrated labor movement in Italy, the Chambers of Labor, the Coöperatives, the Unions, were broken up. D'Annunzio's first stroke was to intercede with the Government for the striking Marine workers. His last move is the founding of a d'Annunzian Chamber of Work at Florence. The charter of the Chamber is based on his Constitution of the Quarnaro, adopted in his Fiume venture. This Constitution bases society on a system of guilds, both of workmen and employers, and is a self-conscious endeavor...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet: "It is reported that upon hearing that Eleanora Duse, whom I once loved but whom I have not seen for years, is to play in Manhattan this Fall in my Citta Morta, I said: 'If it be true, I shall be there myself! Nothing has affected me in years as has this news...