Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With or without malice aforethought Dictator Benito Mussolini picked October, one of the hottest months of the whole Eritrean year, to send short-legged, barrel-chested King Vittorio Emmanuele III on his first visit to Eritrea...
...What is Benito Mussolini today? He has been a Socialist, atheist, terrorist- but may he not have changed? Last week, in an amazing contribution to the Enddopedia Italiana, Signor Mussolini tried to define the "Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism." succeeded in defining himself, exposing some of his innermost mental processes. Excerpts: Peace. "Above all," wrote 77 Duce, "Fascism does not believe in the possibility or advisability of perpetual peace. It therefore rejects pacifism. . . . Only war leads to the maximum tension of all human energies and sets the seal of nobility on people who have the virtue to face...
...Duce finds the touchstone of Fascist policy in "Bismarck, who never knew where the house of the Religion of Liberty was and of what prophets it made use." Stressing that Germans grew to be a world great people under Prince Bismarck's policy of "Blood & Iron," ambitious Benito Mussolini left his countrymen to draw their own conclusions...
...Benito Mussolini fired 24 shots at Italy's national rifle tournament, scored twelve bull's-eyes, forgot to open his breech lock when finished. Said an official, "I am sorry, Your Excellency, but you are fined five lire [26?]." Smiling, Il Duce paid...
...Last week, proudly flying Persia's leonine standard,* the Navy steamed out of Naples, bound for the Persian port of Mohammerah. Officers and crews of the six new ships are 100% Persian, smartly uniformed and painstakingly trained at the Italian Leghorn Naval Academy. As one Dictator to another, Benito Mussolini was delighted to build and sell a navy to the "King of Kings" who began his career as a soldier, became a Cossack, next a General, then Premier & Dictator, finally Shah of Persia...