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Word: duces (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, May 23). Last week. Callender revealed that General Yague had gone much further. General Yague is a popular Left-wing leader of the Falange Española, the blue-shirted group of some 1,000,000 members, officially recognized as an instrument of the State much like Il Duce's Fascists. To a group of these in a Burgos theatre, General Juan Yague last month announced: "Our leader [General Franco] has said that no home shall lack bread and fuel. He is a man of his word. Social justice there will be. The only question is how generous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Franco's Aides | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

That night in Naples' famed old San Carlo Opera, now brilliantly refurbished, Der Fuhrer, Il Re and Il Duce sat through the extremely loud Aïda, which is all about the daughter of a King of Ethiopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY-ITALY: $20,000,000 Visit | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...will and also my political testament to the German people." cried Hitler, "to consider inviolable for all time the frontiers of the Alps, erected between us by nature. I am certain that for Rome, as well as for Germany, there will result a future that is glorious and prosperous. Duce. just as you and your people have remained true to your friendship in the decisive days, so I, too, and my people are ready to manifest the same friendship to Italy in difficult times. Duce. I raise my glass and drink to your health, to the happiness and greatness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY-ITALY: $20,000,000 Visit | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Over 400 planes joined in mass aerobatics, and next it was time for II Duce to set anti-tank guns popping with incendiary bullets which set fire to their targets. The latest Italian artillery then went into action, followed at Rome that evening by a gala Royal Opera performance of musical Adolf's favorite Lohengrin. Next morning Premier Mussolini drove unobtrusively to the railway station, popped in by a side door, while His Majesty the King-Emperor arrived in his victoria with departing Guest Hitler. Il Duce. after seeing the Führer into his private train, dashed ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY-ITALY: $20,000,000 Visit | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Lollypop. In London and Paris, as well as in Berlin and Rome, statesmen expected bilateral pacts now to be swiftly made between France & Italy, Britain & Germany, after which they looked for the final effort to conclude a Four-Power Pact. II Duce was said to have got emotional Adolf Hitler all excited in Florence about a grandiose, perfectly vague project for "world Fascist-Nazi fraternization," this being Benito Mussolini's parting lollypop for the Führer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY-ITALY: $20,000,000 Visit | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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