Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade tinged with "pactomania." The Locarno Pact and sweet "Spirit of Locarno" (which assumed that Germany had kissed France and made up) produced a diplomatic expanding universe of larger and feebler Pollyanna conferences until in 1933 every nation was represented in London at the World Economic Conference. Among statesmen Benito Mussolini was almost alone in openly predicting Pollyanna Diplomacy's inevitable doom. Said he: "It is absurd to expect even the smallest achievement from 66 nations all talking at once...
...fashioned opinions of Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin no dictatorship could count on getting enough votes if the ballot were secret. This fallacy Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have exploded with secret ballot after secret ballot in 'which they always poll better than 90%. Last week Joseph Stalin decided that it will now be all right for the Soviet Union to have secret ballots...
...brought to do anything, the French Premier more than doubted. In Paris last week M. Flandin's press officer had orders to say that the visit might well turn out to be one of "courtesy and contact," with none of the quick action on great issues that Premier Benito Mussolini gave Foreign Minister Laval last month. Since Italy is minute, Britain monstrous, the London talks may still be of greater importance than those at Rome, but to be sure of wasting no time M. Flandin, a driving worker, busied himself with a great cleanup of State business in Paris...
...hard money folk the brightest news in Paris last week was persistent leakage of rumors that Pierre Laval in Rome promised Benito Mussolini a whopping French loan to defend Italy's lira on the gold standard...
Since to hand over the Saar is a complex business, the Council left all details to Premier Benito Mussolini's keen henchman at Geneva, Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Chairman of the League's Saar Committee (TIME, Dec. 17). If the Committee gets bogged before Feb. 15, Baron Aloisi will ask the Council to meet in extraordinary session, cut Gordian knots...