Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maximus Cunetator ("The Delayer") who deployed Rome's legions with such persistent avoidance of battle that when at last he was ready to fight, the wearied Carthaginians were routed. In case the mild tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus (died 203 B. C.) do not avail in 1937, II Duce and Der Führer can always get tough...
...British-Italian pact are these explicit words: "So far as Italy is concerned the integrity of present territories of Spain shall in all circumstances remain intact and unmodified." When Der Führer's correspondent asked II Duce if the setting up at Barcelona or elsewhere in Spain of a Soviet State would "destroy the status quo in the Mediterranean," which Britain and Italy have just pledged themselves to abide by, the Dictator snorted: "Obviously...
Diplomacy. Middle of the week the German Government and the Italian Government stood shoulder to shoulder in replying to Anglo-French notes proposing that further arrivals in Spain of non-Spanish warriors be halted. In the involved language of diplomacy Der Führer and Il Duce professed themselves ready to assist in halting the influx of warriors, on condition that those already in Spain, together with foreign agitators and other foreign aid all be cleared out. Nazi newsorgans roared that "the Red agents of Moscow" must not be permitted to remain in Spain, and raised the issue...
Hitherto Italian Fascism has gone easy on Jews, many prominent Italian Jews holding responsible Government posts, but II Duce knew his friend Der Fiihrer would not be exactly pleased by the new Anglo-Italian pact last week. The thing to give simple Adolf, decided deep Benito, was a rousing anti-Jewish article in Dictator Mussolini's personal newsorgan Popolo d'Italia. This tongue-in-cheek lashing of Jews last week served II Duce the further purpose of permitting him to attack by implication the Premier of France, M. Leon Blum, a Socialist and a Jew. Mussolini considers Blum...
...General Wilhelm Faupel, the "German envoy to the Spanish Government of President Franco" hurrying back to Spain with official assurances of further German support for the Whites. Simultaneously about 10,000 additional Italians landed in Spain to join up with Generalissimo Franco- this mere 10,000 being what II Duce last week meant by "going easy" (see p. 20). In London the anti-Fascist and pro-Socialist Daily Herald raged: "There is a Levantine streak in the man [Mussolini] which delights in such sharp practices...