Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soldier Benito Mussolini outranks in social significance the Province of Littoria, reclaimed since 1931 from the noxious swamplands of the Pontine Marshes by Italian ex-soldiers for themselves and their families. One morning last week, before the Germans should arrive in their pomp (see p. 16), Il Duce slipped behind the wheel of his little sports car, whizzed out of Rome to do at Pomezia (see map) a bit of informal work as a stonemason- which used to be his trade...
...soldier, shouted rustic greetings to the Dictator as he pulled up his car, jumped out. The local Bishop was waiting, for close collaboration of State & Church distinguishes the Mussolini dictatorship from others. A hollow cornerstone of what will be the Church of Pomezia was ready, Il Duce slipped in a parchment and some newly minted Italian coins of 1938, seized the trowel and slapped, spread mortar with the professional touch he has shown in cornerstoning other cities of Littoria (see map), namely Littoria, the capital of the Province, Sabaudia, Pontinia and Aprilia. "Ceremonies such as these require no speeches...
...Affaires in Rome sign a treaty re-establishing interrupted Italo-French credit relations, then cast about for the right Frenchman to send as Ambassador to the King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia. This would mean recognition by France of the Empire carved out by Il Duce...
Premier Daladier and M. Bonnet, great as their misgivings about the Führer and Il Duce are, were not wasting anytime last week getting in on something similar to the Chamberlain-Mussolini Deal (see p. 16). The French Embassy in Rome, journalists learned in Paris, will attempt to get a Daladier-Mussolini Deal along these lines: 1) Italy and France would agree to halt radio propaganda against each other now being broadcast to the peoples of the Near East and North Africa; 2) the Addis...
...Duce del fascismo, Benito Mussolini's exact title, means ''The Leader of the Fascist Party...