Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Desta Demtu, son-in-law of Haile Selassie, Graziani took a long chance, cut a whole brigade of motorized cavalry loose from their base, sent them dashing north on half rations through some of the richest country in Ethiopia. Tactfully to stem the flood of personal publicity about Benito Mussolini's aviator sons, one of the first orders of Marshal Badoglio on taking command last November stated that henceforth neither the names of officers nor the movement of troops would be mentioned in dispatches. For his friend, Marshal Badoglio broke that rule last week. The world quickly learned that...
...Hall to Paddington Station by grey & graceful little Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to whom was assigned as Lord-in-Waiting moose-tall Lord Howard of Penrith, onetime British Ambassador in Washington. For Adolf Hitler walked owl-solemn Baron Constantin von Neurath, who is not a Nazi. For Benito Mussolini stepped spruce Crown Prince Umberto. Tsar Boris of Bulgaria had to make his legs twinkle to keep up with the long strides of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf. For Joseph Stalin walked Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. Only unexpected absentee was George V's particular friend and protege...
...great honesty Rudyard Kipling set to stirring lines what is today the situation most vexing to Benito Mussolini...
...from an audience with the Holy Father, Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, declared, "This grand old man confided to me his agonizing anxieties. He reaffirmed to me that the eminently pacific policy of France remained on this earth his best and greatest hope." Declared United Press from Paris: "Premier Benito Mussolini has sent to Premier Laval his personal assurance that he will not quit the League and will not attack England...
...Frankly, I do not understand British policy," said Benito Mussolini to his favorite U. S. Newshen Anne O'Hare McCormick in Rome recently. "Do you understand...