Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally lean, pantherlike Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace snarled into a microphone that the Dictator was ready, the great glass doors of his lofty balcony snapped open, and out stepped Honorary Corporal Benito Mussolini of the Fascist Militia in that uniform, alone except for two soldiers who flanked him with rifles at present arms. "Blackshirts of the Revolution!" roared II Duce, "men and women of all Italy! Italians all over the world-beyond the mountains, beyond the seas! Listen...
...dealing: secret personal communications between Dictator Benito Mussolini and British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare were acknowledged to have taken place. II Duce shrewdly wrote in Italian and had Ambassador Dino Grandi read off an ex tempore verbal translation to Sir Samuel, after which Grandi departed with the secret sheets of Mussolini's message and may well have burned them. Whether or not Sir Samuel's end of the deal was handled with equal discretion in Rome by British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, who for 14 years was Secretary General of the League of Nations, the cynicism...
Only statesman to speak out with anything like candor on the actual League situation was Benito Mussolini, who received No. French Newspundit Jules Sauerwein and in striking phrases unburdened his mind. "Solutions can be found with Geneva, without Geneva or against Geneva," said the Dictator. "The League of Nations, like the loveliest girl in the world, cannot give more than it has. ... I am in conversation with England. . . . Conflict between our two nations is inconceivable." "Until now the English have considered the Italians as a gay, picturesque and agreeable people," continued II Duce. "It has never come into the English...
...cultural respect, and Pope Pius XI was probably right in thinking last week that the last place on which British bombs will ever fall is the City of the Caesars. All the same, Kaiser Wilhelm II became a "beastly Hun" for some years to his cousin George V, and Benito Mussolini was rapidly becoming even worse last week to English newspaper readers of whom none is more inveterate than His Majesty. In the catch-phrase of Fleet Street's more blatant organs, "Mussolini is out-Hunning the Huns...
...whose air-ambitious son was flunked out. This year when Colonel Jouett's contract expired, Generalissimo Chiang declined to renew it, has now turned his air force over to native officials and Italian experts under Rome's suave General Lordi. This switch resulted directly from efforts by Benito Mussolini over a period of years. In 1934 II Duce flattered Generalissimo Chiang by accrediting to his Government an Ambassador-since when Japan, Great Britain, the U. S. and Germany have followed suit. Recently Generalissimo Chiang accepted an Italian bombing plane as a gift from Dictator Mussolini (TIME, June...