Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Country!" Meanwhile last week Benito Mussolini was trying to repair the stupidity he has committed for months in not courting World public opinion. No democratic leader would have dreamed of preparing a war without making it appear Right & Just in advance. Il Duce, whose entire career has been studded with such aphorisms as "Fascism has already stepped and, if need be, will quietly turn round to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty!" finally bowed last week to the mob. From a Cabinet meeting at Bolzano amid Italy's war games...
...save its face by dropping Ethiopia as unworthy of membership and commissioning Italy, who has no slaves and does possess a strong central government, to bring the backward Empire up to date. Only thing wrong with this Fascist argument on its face was that in 1923, when inexperienced Benito Mussolini had been Premier of Italy for only a few months, the Italian Delegation stood sponsor to Ethiopia and enabled that Empire to enter the League...
...Benito Mussolini stood last week four-square on a package of exploding firecrackers. Zing!-the British Navy blanketed the Suez Canal. Zip!-Italian submarines prepared to counter with "maneuvers" across Britain's communication lines in the Mediterranean. Pow!-Ethiopia's Emperor tried to hand over the better half of his realm to Standard Oil (see p. 23). And bang! bang! bang!-Italian guns fired live shells over Italian troops advancing in war games along the Austrian frontier, killing one trooper and wounding two others as they charged up a hill with the King and Mussolini looking...
...wounded men, told that he would lose his sight, cried out, "Then I want to see Il Duce before I go blind!" During the World War, when Corporal Benito Mussolini was down with 42 shrapnel splinters in his epidermis, King Vittorio Emanuele came to his hospital bedside. Last week the Dictator hurried to the wounded man who had asked...
Climax of maneuvers was the first Cabinet meeting ever held by Premier Mussolini outside of Rome. Present were: Foreign Minister Benito Mussolini, War Minister Benito Mussolini, Naval Minister Benito Mussolini, Air Minister Benito Mussolini, Minister of Interior Benito Mussolini, Minister of Colonies Benito Mussolini, Minister of Corporations Benito Mussolini...