Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannon-forging words, and while he apostrophized brave, dutiful George Washington later the same day (see p. 14), a very different, far more dramatic message by him was being handed around secretly among his closest advisers for final editing. This was a direct personal message to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, to whom he released it over the State Department's wires at 9 o'clock that Friday evening. Coupled with this message in the President's mind was a momentous order to the U. S. Navy. The President had decided that the eleventh hour had struck...
Scarcely half an hour went by before the big doors to the balcony over the Palazzo's main entrance were opened. Out stepped the familiar figure of Benito Mussolini, their leader, followed by Achille Starace, the Fascist Party Secretary. The shouts burst into a deafening roar. Up went the raised arm of II Duce in acknowledgment. Up spoke Signor Starace through loud speakers commanding all to salute Italy's empire builder...
...thing, Benito Mussolini and Vittorio Emmanuele III differ about the future of the House of Savoy. II Duce is amused by his little King, but far from amused by Crown Prince Umberto, Italy's most stubborn antiFascist. The Fascist oath of allegiance, once addressed "to the King and his successors," has been shorn of the last three words. Crown Prince Umberto rarely appears at Fascist celebrations. His sympathizers like to say that he once challenged Benito Mussolini to a duel, still speaks to him like a Prince addressing his Premier...
...Benito Mussolini's growing Roman Empire last week grew a very little more. On Good Friday it absorbed the very little Balkan Kingdom of Albania. Only that and nothing more. Il Duce's coup was neither more nor less cynical and coldblooded than those of Adolf Hitler. But added to all that has taken place in recent months, this small plus quantity of aggression all but upset the status quo in Europe. The brink of war, already almost worn out with Europe's trembling, was trembled on once more...
...Pope, Pius XII, Pope of Peace, † which made out no case for giving him, any more than Pius XI, such a special designation. Last week the Holy Father spent his first Holy Week in office, a week made notable by the fact that his neighbor Benito Mussolini chose Good Friday to invade Albania. On Easter Sunday Pius XII made a radio address to the world: "There can be no peace so long as treaties which have been solemnly sanctioned have lost that security value which constitutes the foundation for reciprocal trust...