Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tough, triumphant and breathing not Butter but Might was the interview which Benito Mussolini gave to Adolf Hitler's personal Berlin newsorgan Volkischer Beobachter. Almost without exception every German has to read this paper and they knew Hitler must approve or he would have never ordered printed what Mussolini said. It knocked into a cocked hat any false notion that the recent British-Italian "friendship accord" (TIME, Jan. 11) would act as a brake on German efforts to ensure White victory in Spain...
Lady Houston expressed in her magazine an uncritical admiration for Benito Mussolini, "the greatest Ruler in the World today," and for Adolf Hitler. To her, neither of these somewhat frightening characters could do wrong, nor could such standpatters as Canada's rich and pious Richard Bedford Bennett, onetime Premier...
...blockade it is giving Hitler and Mussolini an excuse for reprisals. ... If they seek to delay control, the British Navy will be given orders to act swiftly and effectively." Soon the British Empire proceeded to unleash the British Navy again-as it was unleashed last year against Benito Mussolini - this time perhaps to blockade Spain entirely by sea as suggested by the Sunday Referee. Since the House of Commons is about to reconvene this was a good line for His Majesty's Government to take, in preparation for expected criticism from Labor M. P.'s to the effect...
...Italian quarters its phrasing was called "deliberately loose," the object of this being to permit the British Cabinet to keep the boiling antiFascism of Laborites in the House of Commons from unduly effervescing. Even so the London Daily Worker came out with a cartoon in which an extremely virile Benito Mussolini peers out over a Roman balcony toward a lawn on which an extremely effeminate Anthony Eden dances toward him in diaphanous costume, finger crooked coyly in mouth...
Hitherto Italian Fascism has gone easy on Jews, many prominent Italian Jews holding responsible Government posts, but II Duce knew his friend Der Fiihrer would not be exactly pleased by the new Anglo-Italian pact last week. The thing to give simple Adolf, decided deep Benito, was a rousing anti-Jewish article in Dictator Mussolini's personal newsorgan Popolo d'Italia. This tongue-in-cheek lashing of Jews last week served II Duce the further purpose of permitting him to attack by implication the Premier of France, M. Leon Blum, a Socialist and a Jew. Mussolini considers Blum...