Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milan last week, with Achilles ("Pantherman") Starace, No. 2 Fascist and Party Secretary, in his retinue, sped Head-of-the-State Benito Mussolini to build up the morale of that industrial region where bitter unemployment persists. En route Il Duce cajoled Italian peasants at their harvesting, speaking from a truck, a threshing machine, a motorcar, a platform built like the prow of a ship, and from a Hitler-taunting replica of the ox-drawn battle carts with which the Lombard League in the 12th Century repulsed Teutonic Frederick Barbarossa...
...ending in a rousing visit with King Alexander of Jugoslavia who was destined to die with him last week. He had advanced an Eastern Locarno Pact which would throw a "ring of steel" around Germany, and he even got France on trading terms with King Alexander's bitterest enemy Benito Mussolini...
...League, should Jugoslavia do likewise, despite the great numbers of White Russians settled in the country and King Alexander's sentimental memories of his youth as a page at the court of Nicholas II? 4) Can the three countries adopt a united front against the growing power of Benito Mussolini in the Balkans? Should tongue-in-cheek approval be given to Adolf Hitler...
...Benito Mussolini knew that there was more to the conversations than that. So did the French Government. Minister of Marine François Pietri sent his silk hat out to be steamed before hurrying down to Marseilles to meet King Alexander. In the Hotel Crillon in Paris chambermaids scoured the royal suite till it gleamed, and at a dozen French parade grounds troops tramped up & down before exasperated sergeants getting ready for a great state review. So great was the stake in the game he was about to play that at the last minute, Foreign Minister Barthou himself decided...
...Benito Mussolini loves maps. But when his eye leaves Italy, it finds only Libya, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland in Africa for Italian colonies. It is Asia, the East, that gives him the stuff for vast, cloudy dreams. What Japan has done in Manchuria, what France is doing in Yunnan, Italy may well do some day in the Orient...