Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deed affecting 46,000 firms and the daily lives of 1,300,000 workers was done last week by Benito Mussolini. Shrilled Italian newsorgans: "This is II Duce's method of proving to Italian workers that they would have nothing to gain from Communism and are better off under Fascism...
Another professional move was by Benito Mussolini who has been rushing every kind of Italian aid to the White forces battling Madrid. IL Duce kept this up until 48 hours before a great mass meeting of French radicals was about to force the hand of Premier Leon Blum with demands that his Cabinet rush similar aid to the Spanish Radical armies. At this psychological moment Premier Mussolini had his son-in-law Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano announce Italy's adherence, with reservations, to the French Cabinet's round robin, not to aid either side in Spain (TIME...
...Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini...
...away to some other planet while the French Chamber of Deputies adjourned and the Bank of France was reorganized, but he and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos had to do something about Spain and kept pressing upon the Great Powers their round-robin resolution for absolute neutrality (TIME, Aug. 17). Benito Mussolini declared that Italy could adhere to it only if all powers signatory to it would bind themselves not only to refuse "State aid" to Spain but to prevent "private aid" as well from reaching Madrid. In a rage at this, some 30 Red and Pink Deputies and Senators...
...Benito Mussolini, success of the Spanish rebellion might mean more than another boost for Fascism. All over Europe the same rumor was being spread last week. In return for Italian backing and Italian munitions, Spanish Revolutionist Francisco Franco had promised Benito Mussolini to end Spain's present alliance with France and to give Italy the right to fortify Ceuta, opposite Gibraltar, and to use one of the Balearic Islands as a naval base. The Spanish Fascists were a long, long way from victory last week, but if they should succeed and if there were any truth in this rumored...