Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which President Roosevelt charged him with controlling. Mortars, machine guns and methyldichlorarsine are obvious munitions of war. But what about such equally useful, basic implements of war as steel, copper, cotton? In case of hostilities, would an embargo be placed on them, too? Washington wiseacres thought not.* Ever since Benito Mussolini began his dangerous animal act featuring the terrified Lion of Judah and the terrifying Lion of Britain, U. S. cotton and copper producers have enjoyed a brisk business with Italy. According to Capital observers, if the Presidential definition of "implements of war" were enlarged to its logical boundaries...
Both super-pacific Sir Austen Chamberlain, onetime British Foreign Secretary and Nobel Peace Prizeman, and super-militant Benito Mussolini have loudly declared in the present crisis that ''Sanctions mean War!" Once the League's nicely calculated scale of penalties begins to be applied, tempers must soon be lost all around and blood will begin to flow. Last week, though the first step toward sanctions had been taken under Article XV, alternative possibilities were more numerous than neophytes not familiar with League loopholes could imagine. For example the Committee of Thirteen could draft a report such that Ethiopia...
Thus doubly bullied by the world's most powerful fleet and most plausible statesmen, Big Bully Benito Mussolini raged in Rome: "We find it monstrous that the nation which dominates the world refuses us a small bit of land under the African sun! Many times I have given Britain assurance that her interests in Ethiopia would be scrupulously respected. Her attitude, I repeat, is monstrous! The real reasons why Britain so strongly opposes Italy she does not mention...
...Quanto Esse." Rome was first to reply. The Italian Government had just taken four steps: 1) announced a 5% war loan so huge that it shook down Rome's stock market several points; 2) obtained from King Vittorio Emanuele III a decree making Benito Mussolini the sole Italian arbiter of Peace or War; 3) set up a board of Italian fighting service commanders to co-ordinate army, air force and fleet move ments; 4) placed 10.000,000 Italians of both sexes on call for a "practice mobilization"?really a nationwide Fascist pep rally?liable to be announced...
Simultaneously the Island of Pantelleria achieved fame as Italy's "Key to the Mediterranean." Its inhabitants of nearly 10,000 were placed by Benito Mussolini in a "state of siege" and preparations were rushed full blast to use it as an Italian submarine and bombing plane base. Boasted proud Pantellerians prematurely: "Our island, because it lies in the middle of the narrowest part of the Mediterranean, commands the channel and divides the British forces...