Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. George Foster Peabody, So; George Bernard Shaw, 76; Henry Ford, 69; Benito Mussolini...
...Utter Failure!" Stepping out of the seaplane Italy's round-eyed, bearded young Air Minister, General Italo Balbo, made straight for the Conference. A soldier, a fighter, he came to speak for Benito Mussolini who had just ousted his suave, diplomatic Foreign Minister Dino Grandi and occupied the Italian Foreign Office himself. Striding into the Conference bearded General Balbo lisped...
...Though he lisps, the tone and personality of General Balbo are pugnacious, virile, truculent. *Blackest stain on the reputation of Blackshirt Benito Mussolini is the widespread notion that he personally ordered the assassination of the multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, who was unquestionably done to Death by Fascists (TIME, June...
...Benito Mussolini, nine years at the helm of Italy, has evolved two rules for his party that always work: 1) There shall never be a Duce No. 2. 2) Except Benito, no Fascist is indispensable...
...delegate to Lausanne, yet the Franco-British Accord de Confiance was apparently as much of a surprise to him as it was to editors in the U. S. The accord contained a joker particularly unpleasant to Italy: a deeply buried hint of Franco-British naval accord in the Mediterranean. Benito Mussolini dealt gently with his deposed Grandi. Day after his removal was announced, Grandi was appointed Ambassador to Great Britain. It was not a mere face-saving gesture. Ambassador Grandi will have real work, important work to do in London...