Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provided for each family by the Government, rumbled each family to its new home. These were 25-to-75-acre farms, laid out by Government engineers, completely equipped with a fire on the hearth, food on the shelves, cattle and poultry in the yard and a picture of Il Duce on the farmhouse wall. The farm, valued at $2,250, and the truck must be paid for over a 35-year period. The Government has guaranteed to purchase all the crops. When asked why electric light has not been more widely installed in Libyan villages, Governor General Italo Balbo explained...
...selective principle is a novelty in Mussolini antiSemitism, but the Fascist Grand Council went on to issue decrees revealing something different, namely that 11 Duce-quite apart from Jewish questions-wishes to fire Italians with the concept of the "Italian race." Reason: He believes Italians can never be successful Empire builders unless they feel as superior as the most superior Briton feels...
...said afterward that the lengthy speech of Neville Chamberlain seemed to many of them to be trending toward a declaration of war, then suddenly the Prime Minister began to tell how he had sent a personal letter to Il Duce urging him to contact the Führer. This Mussolini did. "In response," said Mr. Chamberlain, "Herr Hitler has agreed to postpone mobilization for twenty-four hours. Whatever views the honorable members have had about Signor Mussolini in the past, I believe every one will welcome his gesture of being willing to work with us for peace in Europe...
...Duce, as the ally of the Führer, alone rated to be met at the frontier of Germany by the Chancellor. The Italian Premier is also the only one of the four chiefs who can speak English, German, French and Italian. Nobody needed to speak Czech. The Big Four, in accordance with the original concept of 1933, were about to constitute themselves the arbiters of Europe, excluding from their councils Czechoslovakia, the League and the Soviet Union. M. Daladier and Mr. Chamberlain, arriving separately by air, were met by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
Engaged. Lieut. Bruno Mussolini, 21. Italian Royal Air Force pilot, second son of Il Duce; and Gina Ruberti, 20-year-old daughter of the head of the Ministry of Education's Contemporary Art Bureau; in Rome...