Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devotion to the League." All this Paris pother about Morocco and its 24-year-old puppet Sultan was of course M. Laval's high-sign last week to Italians that he is still secretly working his hardest to obtain the "free hand in Ethiopia'' he promised Benito Mussolini at the time of the Franco-Italian Pact (TIME...
...stratagems peculiar to Benito Mussolini, most typical is what he calls "changing the guard." A Finance Minister at the zenith of successful budgeting is abruptly returned to his private business, as was Count Volpi. A national hero like Atlantic-soaring Italo Balbo is swept off to rule an African province. Last week such a jolt came even to one of the "Four Men," the original Quadrumvirs who led the March on Rome while Mussolini gave orders from 400 miles away in Milan...
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...York who, at least, has prompt news from the Italian side. . . . "Correspondents have little hope that the postponed journey to Dessye with Emperor Haile Selassie will be more colorful than a highly interesting Cook's tour, with no possibility of seeing action, since the correspondents, whom Premier Benito Mussolini does not want harmed, presumably will be an effective bodyguard against bomb attacks on the Emperor's party...
...Greek Dictator did not realize how English George II has become in all these years, making himself at home to the point of picking his teeth while standing around with Queen Mary and Scottish aristocrats (see cut p. 21). Tough, dynamic General Kondylis is a great admirer of Benito Mussolini and has thought of himself as ruling Greece with a mere fop on the Throne. George II is, however, a first cousin once removed from George V and no fool, though perfectly willing to take a dignified back seat as the flesh & blood emblem of a Constitutional Monarchy. Last week...