Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rome Sir Eric Drummond, the British Ambassador who attempted to dissuade His Majesty's Government from springing the booby trap of Sanctions, and explained over the long-distance telephone time after time that Benito Mussolini is no booby, last week had the satisfaction of signing with II Duce's son-in-law, Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, a general Anglo-Italian pact of conciliation, appeasement and concord. Having affixed their signatures, the Briton and the Italian clasped and shook hands with particular vigor and warmth. The Eagle of Fascism had made peace with the British Lion...
Behind the Dictator is the prostrate figure of Ethiopia, and behind Mr. Eden peer coyly from bushes Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, also in diaphanous costume and with cupid wings. Cries delighted II Duce in the Daily Worker's caption: "There are fairies at the bottom of my garden...
...anticipate: 1) cessation by the extremely powerful Italian radio station at Bari of its anti-British broadcasts in the languages of the Near East; 2) disintegration of the British ''Mediterranean accords" with France, Yugoslavia. Turkey and Greece, made at the time of Sanctions and considered by II Duce as menacing Italy; 3) easy going by Italy from now on in the Spanish Civil War, and even easier going as to the Balearic Islands, which Britain has feared Italy might seize any day; 4) virtual abandonment by Britain of her refortification efforts in such Mediterranean bases as Malta, which...
These smooth words can mean anything in Spain, for Italy has recognized the Whites as the government of that country, while Britain continues to recognize the government against which the Whites are fighting. In these circumstances II Duce could and did contribute to maintaining the status quo in Spain last week by sending another 10,000 Italian troops to aid the Whites (see p. 23) and this did not seem to shock official Britain. In an annex to the pact, Count Ciano declared, with particular reference to the Balearics, that "so far as Italy is concerned the integrity of present...
...comparatively not strong as Italy, he carved out for himself an Empire in Africa. He gambled on the weakness of the League of Nations and on Britain being unable to make a success of Sanctions. Finally, he gambled that the military experts were wrong. In all three gambles II Duce won, but Ethiopia is not a prize so rich that because he won it history must call him Caesar...