Word: benito
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...thing was certain: The day that Joseph Stalin finally decides to cast his lot with Britain and France will be a particularly black one for Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. After that, the acquisition of "vital living spaces" should come hard for the Fiihrer and Il Duce. There may not even be room enough for them at home...
...ever implemented, give the Reich the right under some circumstances to intervene in Italy. To those who have seen German troops, generals, diplomats and agents pouring into Italy during the last six months the treaty seemed final confirmation of what has long been suspected: That long-independent Dictator Benito Mussolini had finally become the political, economic and military prisoner of the more powerful German Führer...
...time that Benito Mussolini's tens of thousands of soldiers were swaggering around the Spanish landscape during the recent civil war, Adolf Hitler's men modestly stayed in the background, playing a less conspicuous but no less effective role. II Duce sent not only airmen but infantrymen to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquer the stubborn Spanish Republicans. Spectacularly he took over the strategic island of Majorca as a bombing base, bombastically he bragged about the brave exploits of his legionnaires...
...light cruiser Nashville was Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, soon to become U. S. Army Chief of Staff. Heading for Brazil from the East on the Italian liner Conte Grande was high-powered, gay, vivacious Countess Edda Ciano, wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, favorite daughter of Benito Mussolini...
...Good Neighbor policy, the motives behind Countess Ciano's visit were less apparent, perhaps more subtle. The clever, scheming, 32-year-old Edda is no mean politician and diplomat. She was one of the behind-the-scenes architects of the Rome-Berlin Axis. As the apple of Papa Benito's eye, pro-German Daughter Edda was largely instrumental in persuading II Duce to go the whole hog in his attachment to the German Führer...