Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press II Duce's advantage too hard, Italy's Ambassador in London, chin-tufted Dino Grandi announced last week that Italy was not "unalterably" opposed to withdrawing her "volunteers." Italy was willing, said he, to make a "symbolic recall" of approximately 5,000 men-IF belligerent rights were awarded General Franco at once, and IF an equivalent number of foreign volunteers were withdrawn from the Leftist armdes at the same time...
...Duce, after his grandiose reception by Der Führer (TIME, Oct. 4, et seq.) was in an exalted mood last week. About the time the President was speaking in Chicago, the Dictator's Milan newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia was printing an editorial in which Mussolini hurled blanket defiance at "capitalism, parliamentary democracy, Communism, liberalism and a certain wavering Catholicism, with which we shall settle accounts in our own fashion some day or other, are against...
...European commentators agreed that Hitler and Mussolini had now linked themselves in the eyes of their 115,000,000 people and of the world so definitely that for the present any rumors that they are not in full cooperation over Spain may be dismissed. It was clear that II Duce and Der Fuhrer were both bidding-and bidding jointly-for close and peaceful relations with Britain and France, to the exclusion of Soviet Russia and Leftist Spain. Assuming that Mussolini's state visit to Hitler cost $1,000,000-and the colossal splurge of decorations in German cities alone...
...likely to take an adamant position in the tri-power negotiations now under way on Spain, and prospects were for groping toward a compromise. General Attilio Teruzzi. staff commander of Italian volunteers in Spain, was said in reliable Rome quarters to have come to report in person to II Duce, will advise the Dictator as to probable war results in Spain of making any move or combination of moves touching "volunteers," "Non-Intervention," "pirates," "belligerent rights...
...Bruno Mussolini was this week discovered to be in active bombing service with the Rightist airforce in Spain. II Duce once remarked: "Bruno is an idealist and I let him do what he wants. In fact, I approve...