Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed "Lady C.", whose husband, Sir Austen Chamberlain, was one of the best friends the League of Nations ever had, visited Rome last winter. There she hobnobbed with League-bolting Il Duce and was credited by diplomats with having done much to smooth the way for the Anglo-Italian Treaty of Friendship which was presently signed, but has never become operative. Reason: By a covering agreement this treaty cannot come into force until substantial numbers of Italian troops have been withdrawn from Spain. Thus last week there was good reason to think Lady C. has just spent a quiet month...
Italy's expulsions of Jews (see p. 30) represented Il Duce's idea of "the cheapest way" to keep his relations with Der Führer close & friendly while at the same time the Premier made clear that last week he was neither backing nor encouraging a German move into Czechoslovakia-quite the reverse. Less interested in downing Jews than in upping Italians, Benito Mussolini has long pursued a campaign to make his countrymen proud of their race, turn Italians with an inferiority complex into "Romans." The Moscow News's cartoonist observed in this move definite signs...
Last week, short-sighted Japanese Emperor Hirohito, the not-too-alert Son of Heaven, sent to his Fascist ally Premier Benito Mussolini the highest decoration in the gift of His Imperial Majesty. Italian papers proudly reported that Il Duce had received the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Japanese Empire, did not mention that it consisted of a decoration in the form of a flower, that its proper name was the "Order of the Chrysanthemum...
...Duce and the Pope, however, last week negotiated a breathing spell for Catholic Action. After a series of conversations, President Lamberto Vignoli of Italian Catholic Action and Achille Starace, Fascist Party Secretary, reaffirmed an agreement made in 1931. By this deal, Catholic Action stays out of politics; its leaders may not be antiFascist. In return, the Party guarantees that no measures will be taken against its members who are also members of Catholic Action. In effect, reaffirmation of the deal served notice on Fascist Catholics that they must toe the party line-no matter what the Pope's views...
Next day II Duce took a prompt shot at the Pope, told Fascist officials: "I wish you and everyone to know that also in the race question we will go straight ahead. To say that Fascism has imitated anyone or anything is simply absurd." Thus squaring off once more at the Vatican, Mussolini caused his two sentences to be shrieked out in Italy's press. But to most Italians the cause of the battle was not immediately evident, would not be until their parish priests told them of it. With the exception of Rome's Catholic dailies, Italian...