Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Premier Benito Mussolini is an omnivorous newspaper reader, French journalism was thus last week doing the Spanish Leftists the worst possible disservice, for this week II Duce was able to hurl at the French Popular Front Cabinet of Léon Blum threats that unless France stop such shipments of munitions, Italy will take measures of intervention far beyond any she has yet taken. Declared Informazione Diplomatica, the most highly authoritative newsorgan controlled by the Italian Government: "Such intervention would have unpredictable and certainly very grave repercussions and might compromise peace on the European Continent...
Since Lord Perth, the British Ambassador in Rome, was conferring almost daily last week on the most amicable terms with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, II Duce's son-in-law, and since at Moscow the Stalin regime chose last week not to make counter threats which might have given Italy and Germany pause, the dominant factor in Spain's civil war was not to be found this week in Aragon, in Catalonia or in Valencia, but in France. The army, navy and air force of the French Republic are among the most powerful in Europe...
...Vilna and marshaled over 50,000 Polish troops along the frontier of Lithuania, which has an army of some 22,000. When the sabre had been thoroughly rattled, Polish President Ignacy Moscicki and Foreign Minister Josef Beck, just back in Warsaw after conferring in Rome with II Duce, dispatched to President Antanas Smetona of Lithuania demands asking nothing more than that the "state of war'' which has existed between Poland and Lithuania for nearly 18 years give way to peace, that the closed and barbed-wire-strung frontier between the two countries be opened, that they resume diplomatic...
Teutons naturally dislike Latins, more specifically Italians dislike Germans, and last week Der Führer and II Duce worked like stevedores to keep their peoples sold on the Rome-Berlin Axis. The press of the world had done everything possible to suggest that Italy and Germany can no longer be friends, now that Germany has engulfed Austria and thus brought German soldiers down to the Brenner Pass frontier of Italy, immediately below which live 613,000 Italian subjects, many of whom were Austrian Tyroleans before the War and are as fiercely German as A. Hitler himself...
...clock on March 7 he categorically warned a person in Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg's confidence against attempting to hold the Austrian plebiscite which Dr. Schuschnigg announced to take place March 13, canceled on March 11. "This contraption will explode in your hands,'' II Duce claimed last week he told Chancellor Schuschnigg. The Italian Dictator went on to tell the Italian people that Austrians had not thanked him for preserving their independence from Germany by his 1934 mobilization which bluffed down the Nazis, and he asserted his belief that the Austrian people would have resisted Italian intervention last...