Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the precise text of the covenants secretly arrived at in Rome fortnight ago by Premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval remained secret last week, to the extreme vexation of the League of Nations. That M. Laval, for a political quid pro quo in Europe, had sold Abyssinia down the river to Mussolini few doubted. So far as Africa is concerned, it appeared from official summaries of the secret pacts that Italy had got from France...
...Some 45,000 square miles of French Sahara (exactly the size of the State of Pennsylvania) to round out the 40,000 square miles quietly obtained from Britain last year by Benito Mussolini...
...Italy Has No Future." Since the vein of Benito Mussolini's policy lies deep,. Pierre Laval's visit was best viewed after a flashback to last March, when Il Duce unfolded before the Fascist Quinquennial Assembly of 4,000 prominent Blackshirts his 60-year plan (TIME. March 26). After making his favorite ironical remark "Our relations with Switzerland continue to be friendly." the Dictator challenged Frenchmen thus: "Reality demands that I state that none of the problems which have existed between France and ourselves for 15 years has been solved...
...Pierre Laval prepared to board his train for Paris most observers agreed that he and Benito Mussolini had made each other prime candidates for the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize-even if squalling Abyssinia is incidentally butchered...
...Steel Corp.), Nicholas Murray Butler, D. C. L., LL. D. (lent by the Archaeological Biographical Society of New York), Walter Sherman Gifford (lent by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.), Eugene Grace (lent by Bethlehem Steel Corp.), Dr. Dean Sage (lent by the Presbyterian Hospital). Other Salisbury sitters: Benito Mussolini, William Thompson Dewart (New York...