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...Shall I also stress," continued the Foreign Minister, "how much I endeavored-and how much I rejoiced in so doing-to prepare for reconstitution of the pacific front of Stresa!"-i. e. the British-French-Italian decision, with Benito Mussolini as host at Stresa, to stand together against Germany's rupture at that time of the Treaty of Versailles by rearming in violation of its terms (TIME, April...
Significance. The releasing in London of such a British White Paper as this forced observers to surmise that either Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Premier Benito Mussolini have secretly almost settled their differences about Ethiopia, or else that the whole project of having British & Italian soldiers guard the Rhineland shoulder-to-shoulder was sheer diplomatic March Madness. The Dean & Chapter of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral were so incensed that they refused to offer the usual Sunday prayers for His Majesty's Government and to the congregation Canon Thomas Arthur Edwards Davey cried: "We will not lead...
...vote of Denmark, scared Socialist neighbor of the Nazis. It was said that if the Council sought to re-admit Germany to membership in the Council, that would be blackballed by the Bolsheviks. As for the Fascists, there was a sardonic grin last week on the face of Benito Mussolini, who has mobilized in Europe 1,000,000 soldiers, not to mention his 300,000 in Africa. In London II Duce's envoy, Dino Grandi, kept saying: "Now is the time to settle everything" - i.e., to make a Vansittart Ethiopian peace and a Vansittart German peace. The august London...
...disgusted by the American Revolution and refused to recognize the U. S. He said that the U. S. Declaration of Independence was the "first official recognition of the equality of all human beings, including the Jews." Although most Communists are outspoken against Fascists, Comrade Troyanovsky digressed to praise Benito Mussolini for "not dishonoring himself by anti-Semitic words or deeds...
...object of British Lieut. General Napier was to punish a bad Emperor for having tortured some Englishmen. Benito Mussolini began his road-building and colonizing invasion of Ethiopia last October. Three days later Aduwa fell, followed by the fall of the Holy City of Aksum a week later. The emotional advance was stupendous. The territorial advance was 75 miles. Nothing much except road-building happened for a month. Then the Italians pushed their advance 65 miles by taking Makale (TIME, Nov. 18). Nothing of a victorious nature continued to happen for three months. Then under newly appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio...