Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Chamberlain pronouncement, embodying the Chancellor's usual pessimism and cynicism, came just before two epochal events. Suddenly the tariffs and quotas of France were slashed, and this was followed even more unexpectedly by Benito Mussolini with similar action on behalf of Italy (see p. 24). Overnight on the international scene new life was breathed into the principle of Free Trade, and there was a wild scramble by His Majesty's Government to readjust their ideas and Mr. Chamberlain's. To Geneva this week hurried the Chancellor's most distinguished subordinate, Mr. William Shepherd ("Shakespeare") Morrison...
...Fascist Italy, ordinarily considered a super-Nationalist State, was the first to follow the French lead to tariff appeasement and a better economic world. To Washington and to London was presented a supreme opportunity to join in for international economic peace and increasingly Free Trade. "It is necessary," declared Benito Mussolini, "to abandon temporary settlements and enter the field of permanent adjustment...
This was interpreted as meaning that Dr. Schacht would not for the time being devalue the mark which in any case has been for years a purely artificial currency. But what about the lira? Would Premier Benito Mussolini, who placed the lira on gold in the days when Calvin Coolidge was President and the Gold Standard sacrosanct, recognize that a page of economic history has turned and the entire world must seek readjustment...
Died. Field Marshal Julius Gömbös. circa 50, bullnecked, swashbuckling Premier of Hungary, longtime admirer and disciple of Benito Mussolini; of complications following a kidney ailment; in a sanitarium at Nymphenburg, Germany. After the War he founded an anti-Semitic society called the "Awakened Magyars," restored punishment by flogging in the Hungarian army, renounced anti-Semitism when he became Premier four years ago. At news of his death his cabinet resigned to await developments...
...rage of victorious Benito Mussolini, defeated Haile Selassie won at Geneva last week the right to retain his delegation's seat in the Assembly of the League of Nations during its present session. British efforts to bar the Ethiopians, half heartedly seconded by the French, were called by veteran New York Herald Tribune Correspondent John Elliott "a bit of jugglery so contemptible that even a Tammany politician might have blushed to be connected with...