Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every leading Briton seemed on the qui vive last week to thwart Benito Mussolini's candid designs on Ethiopia. Political fossils like bemonocled Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain, shaggy-maned David Lloyd George, Tea-pot-Tempester Winston Churchill- and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who has lately collected 11,000,000 British straw votes for Peace, all hustled in to see Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare...
...convinced that when Benito Mussolini has answered he has answered, British Minister for League of Nations Affairs Captain Anthony Eden, and French Premier Pierre Laval spent an exasperating week in Paris trying to find out officially from Italian League Delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi what Italy really wants of Ethiopia...
Confident Romans cooled themselves amid last week's heat with Italy's newly named "Ethiopia Ice Cream"-chocolate with pistachio nuts. Even Benito Mussolini's most scornful critics, Europe's Socialist and Communist Press, admitted that he has now fired his people with exultant zeal for conquering Ethiopia, plus hopes of absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned...
...Were merely bored as Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare rambled into an unconsidered speech on Ethiopia which infuriated Italian Premier Benito Mussolini and made impossible any achievement at Geneva last week by British Minister for League of Nations Affairs Captain Anthony Eden...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt has a fat little fortune, they would approve if in marrying off an only daughter he dowered her with 20% of it in tax-exempt bonds. Such was the ratio observed last week by shrewd, earthy, peasant-born Premier Pierre Laval when, like equally plebeian Premier Benito Mussolini, he prepared to marry off his José to a count...