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...Presidential train raced south through the rich red -amp; green foothills of Virginia. Inside, President Roosevelt made the last few changes in the speech of a day that sped into history. One hour before his train left Washington, Benito Mussolini declared war on Great Britain and France...
Street Fighting. In its first day the war between Benito Mussolini and the Allies largely took the form of local abuse, sabotage and despair...
...afternoon sun of June 10 was almost down the heavens of western Eu rope when Dictator Benito Mussolini stepped out on his balcony in the Palazzo Venezia at Rome to announce that now, the Allies' darkest hour in nine months of fighting against Germany, was Italy's hour to take active part on Germany's side...
...great people is truly such if it con siders its obligation sacred and does not avoid the supreme trials which determine the course of history." Now that France was struggling for her life-breath, and Great Britain was girding against invasion, Benito Mussolini cried: "We are taking up arms to resolve, after reaching a solution of the problem of our continental frontiers, the problem of our frontiers...
...Perhaps Benito Mussolini was sincere in his guarantees to the small States. But sincerity sometimes relaxes. Adolf Hitler was thought to have been sincere when he swore the Sudetenland was his last territorial desire in Europe. The nations of the world last week were stuffed with tinder. By entering the war as Germany's first ally, Benito Mussolini struck a fateful match. Whatever the immediate result of II Duce's participation, the long-range danger was that no man knew how far the fires of war would spread...