Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fond of playing off rival groups and institutions against one another, professes to admire the Waldenses (his personal physician is one). To Waldenses in the U. S. last week came good news from Italy. On their churches in Italy, Waldenses have been permitted to glue posters certifying to II Duce's favor: quotations from his law of 1929, which guarantees religious freedom in Italy, and accompanying them a special statement signed by Benito Mussolini: "I know that the Waldenses are Italians by race and of heart, and am an admirer of their history; for their endurance, for their sacrifices...
...Tsar, whose wife is a daughter of the King of Italy, was reported to be looking personally into Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's new and most cordial relations with II Duce. London's leftist tipster sheet The Week had Greece's King George "afraid he has cancer. His mother Queen Sophie died of it. And before that her mother too. ... If the British doctors' opinion is unfavorable, then the King will abdicate in January." At dingy but swank Brown's Hotel, where George II was staying, Leopold III called and Their Majesties took...
While fat, young Vittorio Mussolini was getting a Bronx bird in Hollywood last month (TIME, Oct. 18) Rome was turning Hollywood Director Rouben Mamoulian into a lion. To Hollywood, II Duce's son was the unattractive symbol of a repressive political system. To Rome, Director Mamoulian, despite his Hollywood background, was an artist and a good one. Film Tsar Luigi Freddi entertained him at his home, where no Hollywoodman has been before. Princess Jane San Faustino (née Jane Campbell of Manhattan) introduced him to Crown Prince Umberto at a smart midnight party. Admirers brought him gifts...
...sooner had injured Vittorio returned than Rome picked up its cudgels. Rushing from an interview with II Duce, the editor of ultra-Fascist Il Tevere had his paper on the streets two hours later, condemning Hollywood for threefold intrusion into Italian cinemaffairs: 1) invasion of the market with a product "unsurpassable because of a crushing superiority of means," 2) control of distribution, 3) a threat to enter the theatre field (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's plan for a circuit of its own in Italy). Italy permits Hollywood to take home $1,000,000 profit annually. Since this represents a return...
They attribute the rise of dictatorships to the "spiritual exhaustion" of nations. "It is emotional fatigue which causes a people to abdicate in favor of supreme commissars or a reichsfuchrer or il duce. When the spiritual forces making for democracy are at a low ebb and the material conditions upon which mere existence depends are adverse, a vacuum is created into which a dictator may easily enter...