Word: defender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Referring to the Fascist militia, Benito said: "The militia has been most useful to us in the present crisis. These soldiers of ours remained solid and faithful and ready to defend the Government if any one had accepted the proposals of the subversive parties. The militia will remain. This is a matter on which I will not compromise...
...minority is too weak to defend you, even on the basis of a harmless, but necessary, educational exhibit. It can not now defend itself. The times, and possibly the world and sun also, are out of joint...
Minister Finzi and Commandatore Cesare Rossi, both personal friends of Benito, resigned, stating that they wished to be free to defend themselves against "libelous attacks of their enemies." Editor Filippo Filippelli of the Corriere Italiano, Fascist organ was arrested shortly after he escaped from Rome. It was known that Finzi was the moving spirit of the Corriere Italiano. There followed the arrest of 17 more Fascisti. The Opposition fulminated against the Government, declared that Finzi was a grafter...
...President asked M. Herriot to form a Cabinet the latter raised the question of the President's resignation. M. Millerand declared he could not discuss the question?he had been elected President of France for seven years and he intended to remain President for that period and to defend to the last the French Constitution which had fixed at seven years the Presidential mandate...
...Ypres, Lord Southborough, Lord Chalmers, General Sir William Mackinnon, Sir George Buchanan, Viscount Esher, Sir Joseph Ridgeway, Lord Stamfordham) in plumed caps, wondrously colored robes, wearing massive gold chains and bejeweled stars, offered their swords to the Dean of West minster, and made the vow to "Love the King. Defend him and his right; defend maidens, widows and orphans in their rights. Suffer no extortion. Hold the order in as great honor as ever...