Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munich railway station last week boiling mad about some detail of the arrangements which had gone awry, berated a beet-red perspiring Schutzstaffel officer in explosive gutturals, and astonished the easy-going Bavarian populace by his harsh, tense mien. Next minute Der Führer, having saluted II Duce inside the station in the presence of privileged bigwigs, emerged beaming with his guest, while heavy German guns crashed 21 times in salute. Unlike Stalin, who always drives fast in a closed Hispano (see p. 22), Hitler and Mussolini sat side by side in a slowly moving open Mercedes, but each...
...good-by to papa at Bologna. There his special train from Rome paused for family kisses and heartily the Dictator bussed young Mrs. Vittorio Mussolini whose husband was en route to Hollywood (see p. 21). Later at Trento, where in his youth Mussolini was imprisoned, crowds roared "Viva II Duce!" and he shouted back "Viva Trento!" The train chuffed on, stopped for several hours in the mountains during the night to give the Dictator a better chance for sound sleep, finally entered Austria where the Cabinet of doughty Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg was almost frantic at the outside chance...
...only previous meeting was when Der Führer flew to Venice (TIME, June 25, 1934). Sixteen days after that Adolf Hitler staged his Nazi "Blood Purge" in which many Germans were killed. Twenty-five days later Nazi agents in Vienna assassinated Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and II Duce, believing Der Führer was about to seize Austria, mobilized the Italian Army on the Austrian frontier, rang up Adolf Hitler by long distance phone and warned him in German: "Hands off Austria...
...France have meted out "unequal treatment" to the Reich and that this is the Crime of the Century. It was in defiant efforts to force "equal treatment" from Democratic powers that the Nazis clamored loudest and ultimately tore up the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, Feb. 8). Last week Il Duce set the Italian press to clamoring that Britain and France have now denied "equality" to Italy, demanding that the Italian navy be given an equal share in any patrol of the Mediterranean. As these editorials were read beyond the Rhine, German editors began to grind out reams of comment extremely...
Accompanied by Hollywood Producer Hal Roach, Vittorio Mussolini, 21. eldest son of Il Duce, sailed on the Rex for the U. S., where he will learn U. S. movie production methods prior to starting an Italian company backed 50% by Producer Roach...