Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy's chief cinema censor is Benito Mussolini, and his standards are Mother Hubbardish. But this month Il Duce let down all bars for the International Film Exposition at Venice. To bait this Fascist trap for tourists every major film firm in the world was permitted to send one picture, presumably its best, to be exhibited uncensored. Last week the Venice film show had been stolen by Extase ("Ecstasy"), a Czechoslovak film which nearly every country in the world has suppressed...
Back from the Austrian frontier last week Benito Mussolini withdrew the 50,000 troops, the tanks and field guns that he sent to prevent an Austrian Nazi Putsch after the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6). Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, Austrian Vice Chancellor, had just reported in Rome to Il Duce that Austria is now quiet. This week the new Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, is due in Italy to attend the annual war games as Premier Mussolini's guest. Last week the Italian troops which marched away from Austria did not march far. Most went back to their...
...nearest approach to battle conditions that they could create all the elaborate mechanical devices with which munitions makers have been whiling away the quiet years. Troops will advance this week under shell barrages. There will be clouds of real tear gas to penalize those slow with their masks. Benito Mussolini is particularly anxious to find out if his newly organized celeri (speedy) divisions are really as efficient as they appear on paper or if the mass of electrically controlled machine guns, trucks, tanks, microphone plane finders and other gadgets with which they are equipped are too complicated for simple Italian...
...post to see that all of them are on their toes. The first day of maneuvers caught him in the Futa Pass in the Apppenines just as a regiment of cock-feathered Bersaglieri, the corps in which he served during the War, was passing. Out of his staff jumped Benito to shoulder a rifle and stride along with the column for over a mile. Promptly he amended his orderto his Cabinetnot only to serve with the trrops, but to mix with the trops "to get into the spirit...
...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's official service organ last week the following...