Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State in Europe, could not afford big war right now. Italy is poor. Gasoline went to 95? per gallon last week. Coffee above $1 per Ib. - i. e., did not exist. Italy is peace-willing (General Italo Balbo spoke for other Army men when he urged that Il Duce try to carry out President Roosevelt's peace suggestion). And Italy was scared...
...with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. When Count Ciano flew back to Rome, Count Csaky soon followed. When Count Ciano was too busy to see the U. S., British or French Ambassadors, he still had time to spend an hour and ten minutes with Count Csaky. When II Duce was making mysteries by his silence, he could still spend an hour with the Count...
...this ethereal haunt there arrived one day last week Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italy's Foreign Minister, son-in-law of Il Duce. Already there were German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to Rome, the Italian Ambassador to Berlin, sundry legal experts, advisers, retainers. They were to have lunch with the Führer...
...gossip also had it that Chief of General Staff Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's most gifted strategist (who was surprisingly absent from the maneuvers), had won another victory. The tough-minded Marshal, who salvaged the Ethiopian campaign after it had bogged down, and who talks back to Il Duce, was reported to think no more of Blitzkrieg than of many another red-hot Fascist notion...
London. Other reports were that the Italian masses were growing restless under continued war strain, that the Army of the Po, like many a careless motorist, had just run out of gas. London heard that Il Duce, after piloting his own plane over the troops, had suffered a heart attack. The hard-driving dictator, now 56, did not show up for the concluding review, same night ostentatiously appeared at an open-air opera. But the rumors persisted. For answering a query about them, Herbert-Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins, United Press man in Rome, got the most drastic punishment ever dealt...