Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Germany would like to grab an African colony herself, German editors have lately proved themselves among the world's most adept at understanding and sympathizing with Italy's designs on Ethiopia. Noting this last week, Benito Mussolini abruptly canceled the exclusion order which for the past year has kept out of Italy some 30 Nazi papers, including Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan the People's Observer...
...months ago Benito Mussolini seemed so deeply committed to the big military job of maintaining Austria's independence against Germany that, on that issue and certain others vital to Adolf Hitler, suave British diplomatists could flirt politely with Berlin's Nazis, leaving Italy to bear the brunt of German wrath. By last week Il Duce had all Europe guessing whether he and Der Führer may not soon get together in a deal as to Austria's future, and in London the welkin rang with reverberations of anti-British editorials splashed out in Rome...
...Benito Mussolini's horse bumped him into a low-hanging branch which knocked him off, blacked his eye. Imperturbed. Il Duce attended a large reception at the British Embassy that night...
...Benito Mussolini signed an aviator's license, embraced affectionately, pinned a pilot's gold wings on his handsome 17-year-old second son, Bruno, after proudly watching him qualify at Rome's Centocelle Field. Son Bruno thus became Italy's youngest licensed pilot...
...sailed for East Africa. There were parades and speeches in every provincial capital. In Rome gnarled little King Vittorio Emanuele presented new colors to 16 new regiments. Celebrating the ninth Fascist levy 150,000 young men throughout Italy joined the Fascist Militia. And addressing 100,000 soldiers and Blackshirts, Benito Mussolini had cried...