Word: benito
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...Marie before rushing to Paris to join her son was to have the admiral's uniform in which her husband was killed changed to the service dress of a Serbian general, in which he had spent most of his life. Nations hurried to do him honor. From Rome Benito Mussolini wired shore batteries to fire salutes as the little Dubrovnik passed through the narrow Straits of Messina. Four British and three French cruisers dropped anchor in the harbor of Split, hauled their flags to half-mast to await Alexander's homecoming...
...arrived in the U. S. for a grand sightseeing and goodwill tour of U. S. colleges. Before they sailed back to Italy last week, they had visited no less than 35 campuses and provided the country with an interesting litmus-paper test on the political and educational ideas of Benito Mussolini...
...ending in a rousing visit with King Alexander of Jugoslavia who was destined to die with him last week. He had advanced an Eastern Locarno Pact which would throw a "ring of steel" around Germany, and he even got France on trading terms with King Alexander's bitterest enemy Benito Mussolini...
...League, should Jugoslavia do likewise, despite the great numbers of White Russians settled in the country and King Alexander's sentimental memories of his youth as a page at the court of Nicholas II? 4) Can the three countries adopt a united front against the growing power of Benito Mussolini in the Balkans? Should tongue-in-cheek approval be given to Adolf Hitler...
...Benito Mussolini knew that there was more to the conversations than that. So did the French Government. Minister of Marine François Pietri sent his silk hat out to be steamed before hurrying down to Marseilles to meet King Alexander. In the Hotel Crillon in Paris chambermaids scoured the royal suite till it gleamed, and at a dozen French parade grounds troops tramped up & down before exasperated sergeants getting ready for a great state review. So great was the stake in the game he was about to play that at the last minute, Foreign Minister Barthou himself decided...