Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served the Opposition's purpose, bringing the Prime Minister limping heavily out of No. 10 and into the House of Commons where British sportsmanship assured him a great cheer. Mr. Chamberlain heartily laughed off such Labor questions about his recent exchange of personal missives on Spain with Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 9) as: "Could these letters properly be described as love letters?" The House was told by British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha what has long been known and frequently denied, that the Spanish Rightists have installed artillery commanding Britain's chief Mediterranean base. "The guns...
...fine sieve of this technicality might hold diplomatic eau de cologne, but what British Labor smelled slopping over was yet another British Conservative deal like that Sir Samuel Hoare attempted with Benito Mussolini (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935), only this time a deal on Spain, not Ethiopia. Nevertheless the Labor Party last week put up feeble resistance in the House of Commons, which upheld the Government's course...
...Benito Mussolini, have a care! You've ruined the Woman I love, Democracy; killed my aged mother, the League of Nations; sunk the British fleet and set fire to the Empire-but beware...
...Leftist sympathizers were already claiming that volunteers with the Rightists outnumber 4-to-1 volunteers with the Leftists, clamoring that therefore four must quit the Rightists for every one who quits the Leftists. Berlin threw in a small pair of pliers to the effect that both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini see no difference between a "volunteer" who is fighting as a soldier and one who is fighting as a propagandist-i.e., Der Führer and Il Duce want what they call "the Red Agents of Moscow" also withdrawn from Spain...
...Popolo d'Italia, personal newsorgan of Protector-of-Islam Benito Mussolini, editorialized: "No one ever entrusted anyone with a mandate to sow destruction and massacre in the Holy Land. . . . Whole streets are razed as punishment for acts whose perpetrators the British authorities are unable to detect and do not wish to investigate. . . . Laws which for thousands of years have guaranteed Justice to civilized mankind are openly trampled on and innocent citizens are punished for deeds for which they bear no responsibility. . . . The news from Palestine cannot but arouse a sense of horror throughout the civilized world...