Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the big doors to the balcony over the Palazzo's main entrance were opened. Out stepped the familiar figure of Benito Mussolini, their leader, followed by Achille Starace, the Fascist Party Secretary. The shouts burst into a deafening roar. Up went the raised arm of II Duce in acknowledgment. Up spoke Signor Starace through loud speakers commanding all to salute Italy's empire builder...
Italians pay allegiance to II Duce, II Papa, II Re. It is no secret, even in censor-ridden Italy, that the agnostic peasant's son who commands the lion's share of the allegiance is quietly deplored by Pope and King. Last week that division in sentiment passed a crisis which has long been building...
Vanishing Faith. The neat notion that Dictator Mussolini could be bought or wooed away from his alliance with Adolf Hitler all but vanished last week, and with it went the last shreds of trust in II Duce's words. Of all Prime Minister Chamberlain's dubious achievements in foreign policy, he was proudest of the Anglo-Italian Treaty "guaranteeing" the status quo of the Mediterranean. In January Dictator Mussolini had personally promised Mr. Chamberlain that he had no intention of changing that status quo. Last week Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano gravely assured British Ambassador Lord Perth...
...promise that Spain would not sign the anti-Comintern Pact. Failing that, France had sent her most distinguished soldier, Marshal Philippe Petain, as Ambassador to Burgos to deal gently and well with the Spanish soldier-dictator. Moreover, the Spanish War was now over and not only had II Duce not withdrawn his troops from Spain (as he so many times promised), but there were rumors in Paris and London that more had been recently landed...
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who was best man at Zog's wedding last year, arrived to form a "provisional Albanian Government" and II Duce, as quickly as he could spare the time from his Palazzo Venezia desk, was scheduled to announce in Tirana just what he intended to do with his new possession. Best guess was that it would become a protectorate under the sovereignty of His Imperial Majesty King Vittorio Emmanuele III of Italy...