Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This instance the learned Sheik cited to buttress his assertion last week that the hailing of Benito Mussolini by the Moslems of Libya as "Protector of Islam" (TIME, March 22) and his triumphant entry into Tripoli marked more cozening of a bribe-giving Christian by the wily infidels. "Our religion makes it impossible for us to be loyal to a non-Moslem ruler," smiled the Sheik. "You will hardly find 1,000 Moslems among the 160,000,000 under British rule who are not eager to shake it off, and the same is true of the Italians and the French...
Nearly every kind of hot news story about Benito Mussolini began to sizzle in capitals from one end of Europe to the other last week, while Il Duce made still more news in sizzling Africa...
...most of it consists of desert sands (see map, p. 23), but no Italian would dream of not defending this colonial diadem in case of need, and to Libya steamed last week nearly half the Royal Italian Navy to escort suitably and later be reviewed by His Excellency Benito Mussolini, Leader of the Party and Head of the State...
...expense of routing such reasonable pirates. Not so President Jefferson. While the importance of landing the U. S. Marines in 1805 at Derna should not be overemphasized, it was a bold stroke and gave Europe a foretaste of the kind of issue on which Americans will fight. Last week Benito Mussolini did not fail to stand at Derna in respectful, silent tribute at the monument of that onetime Connecticut schoolteacher who led the Marines in their glorious onslaught upon the barbarians of Barbary, a hero whose name many U. S. schoolchildren once knew, Captain William Eaton. Under his leader ship...
This week at Cyrene, while Benito Mussolini was reviewing a procession of Mohammedans who rumbled past in their peasant ox carts, cheers caused an ox to break over the traces, and bellowing it charged Il Duce. Italo Balbo and other Fascist bigwigs flung themselves upon the ox, twisting it over by the horns and holding it prostrate, sitting on its head until peasants ran up with ropes, hobbled the ox's feet. Scowling, the Dictator watched. Himself a peasant, he then scathingly reproved the peasant owner of the ox in choice Italian argot for being such a numbskull...