Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benito Mussolini pointed a shiny black pistol at the League of Nations last week, fired a thunderous blank...
...black pistol was the black-shirted Fascist Grand Council, supreme organ of the Italian State. The resounding blank was a decision by the Grand Council in Rome last week. The decision: Only if the League of Nations is "radically reformed in the shortest possible time" as to its "constitution, working system and objectives" will Italy continue to remain a League member state...
After the recent scathing anti-League campaign in the Fascist Press (TIME, Nov. 27) many an Italian had expected the Grand Council to fire not a blank but the bullet of Italian resignation from the League. Il Duce's acts (as distinguished from his words) are, however, nearly always extremely cautious. He is working slowly (and he hopes surely) to root democracy out of the League, as he has rooted it out of Italy. Last Spring he tried to create an "authoritarian" bloc of Great Powers to put the League in its place by drawing Britain, France and Germany...
Reactions to Benito's blank shot...
Tokyo: The Foreign Office spokesman was frankly disappointed that Italy's blank was not a bullet...