Word: duces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boomed Il Duce: "Cinematography ranks with the printing press as a formidable instrument for the conquest and diffusion of culture...
Mussolini has been a figure of mystery on the world stage. Yet of him we know little. What were his forebears like? What were the forces, the conditions of living, the secret fires of the man himself that made him II Duce, leader of Italy? Mussolini's s]tory is perhaps the most important public pronouncement by a world figure in many years...
...Spain and the President of France (TIME, July 23). Unfortunately relations between France and Italy are just now so tense that at the last minute it was considered wiser to omit the gesture of a nation-to-nation handclasp across the frontier. Therefore M. Le President and Il Duce kept their too potent palms out of contact, last week, but sent their Ministers of Public Works to shake just an ordinary shake...
...short: a major diplomatic victory for Il Duce and the Duke, discreetly achieved without squawks...
...Another signal triumph for Benito Mussolini was the success of his emissaries, last summer, in negotiations with representatives of Spain, France and Great Britain respecting control of the internationalized port of Tangier, just across the strait from Gibraltar. Without entering into details it may fairly be said that Il Duce obtained all that he sought and secured potent Italian participation in the policing and control of Tangier...