Word: balbo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the Mediterranean. Never before has the Power of the Press been thus saluted by British statesmen. Numerous British newsorgans last week were calling Premier Mussolini a maniac and London's Sunday Referee published an article hopefully suggesting that Italians will rise under Crown Prince Umberto and Air Marshal Balbo in a "revolt against the Dictator." Neutrals observed that, if the British "reason" is valid, Adolf Hitler may, with even better reason, use the excuse of press attacks upon Nazi-land to send German bombing planes roaring in "maneuvers" over Manhattan, Paris or London...
...soldiers up to drinks, shook hands with an Austrian frontier guard who grinned at his country's Fascist protector, appeared to get on well with the King in a series of animated battlefield talks, and was joined by "Italy's Forgotten Hero," grinning, bearded Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor General of Lybia. If they do hate each other as much as Rome believes, Balbo & Mussolini last week showed themselves hearty, affable masters of concealment. The Air Marshal said easily that he was not enlisting to fight Ethiopia as he would be raising native troops in the colony...
...tough with Congress, despite the fact that the legislation waiting for his signature was pitifully meagre: the War Department Appropriation Bill increasing the enlisted strength of the Army from 119,000 to 165,000 (TIME, March 25); a bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross on Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo and on General Aldo Pellegrini for their flight to the Century of Progress in 1933; the repealer of income tar publicity (pink slips...
Though hirsute Fascist underlings were reported in a barber's rush to become smooth-faced last week, Air Marshal Italo Balbo, one of the few blackshirts who has ever talked back to Il Duce, remained bearded...
Only the most earnest Fascists take such Mussolini cynicisms seriously. Last week they produced as an example of Fascist freedom of the Press an article by Air Marshal Italo Balbo criticizing plans to subordinate the Air Force to the Army and Navy-plans reputedly favored by II Duce. Actually the appearance of such an article is apt to be a signal that the Dictator has changed his mind upon the point in question. It was small proof of freedom of the Press that Marshal Balbo was able to get on the front page of Air Minister Benito Mussolini...