Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week of the Italo-Ethiopian Question and the Italo-British Question as distinct and thus capable of separate solutions. Helping this along with a flat assertion, undoubtedly premature, highest Paris diplomatic sources said off the record that in Rome last week the Italo-British Question was solved by Benito Mussolini and Sir Eric Drummond, although the Dictator and the Ambassador obviously could divulge nothing until after Britain's general election this week. In neither Rome nor London could the slightest confirmation be obtained, though in Mayfair some swank wits opined: "The reason Baldwin called our election so suddenly...
Remembering how Cub Reporter Benito Mussolini once lived in fear of being fired by a capricious editor, the Dictator with his 1927 Charter of Labor protected the status of all Italian employes with a nationwide, mandatory system of labor contracts and gave extra protection to working journalists...
Some contradictions of British policy, as voiced by British leaders, stung not only Ethiopia's Emperor but also Italy's Dictator to grave misgivings. In a fresh public warning to Britons last week Benito Mussolini, although still in private negotiation with Sir Samuel Hoare through intermediaries, declared: "Italians will organize a most desperate resistance [against sanctions] and will distinguish between friend...
Perhaps it was the intuition of Adolf Hitler which let this windy provocation pass, and in Rome the intuition of Benito Mussolini was also working overtime, verbal postures of British electioneers, the pained uproar of Continental editors, and the general Homeric hubbub of last week were vastly flattering to the British voter, made him glow with a feeling that his Government, to create such a stir, must indeed deserve many a ballot. Electioneerings...
...example to Benito Mussolini of how to bear the white man's burden, all this was superb. Egypt has not been permitted to join the League of Nations and therefore cannot squawk at Geneva. King Fuad is a fat, docile puppet. The farce that Egypt is an "independent kingdom" has been played so long that everyone has his lines pat (TIME, Dec. 10). But last week Egyptians boiled with demands that their lickspit Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha should at least make the turning to Alexandria into Britain's main Mediterranean war base the occasion for wangling some heavy...