Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Army of the Po went through its paces before Il Duce, King Vittorio Emmanuele, and German, Hungarian, Spanish and Japanese military missions. The troops first concentrated near Padua (see map). Their task was to dash 230 miles across North Italy to repulse "Red" (French) invaders who had supposedly overwhelmed the frontier and were descending on Turin from the Alpine passes...
When the bridge was finished, the armored divisions rumbled across to catch up with the troops converging east of Turin. Il Duce, who had flown his own plane from Rimini, watched the maneuvers from the air. He swooped low over the columns crossing the Ticino and was reported to be "pleased at the way they hid themselves from aerial observers...
...exclaimed: "Whoever strikes at the Catholic Action associations strikes at the Pope, and whoever strikes at the Pope dies." Vexed was Pius XI because, after seven years of struggle, compromise and more struggle, Fascists were still trying to hog-tie Catholic Action. Anticlerical Fascists, led by Roberto Farinacci, Il Duce's Councilor of State, have long held that Catholic Action, which is the only Italian Papular organization not run by the State, is potentially a political, hence an opposition, party. Last week, a year almost to the day after the Pope's warning, Farinacci's group struck...
...Padrone ("The Master's Voice"), the Victor phonograph trademark whose secondary meaning is understood by everyone. Too many Gestapo men are around to mention the word "Hitler or "Adolf," but when Italians say "We were better off under our own padrone," the inference is that they believe Il Duce to have lost his hold on Italy and that the Führer is really the boss...
...racialism bothered the congress little, nationalism caused it some trouble. Most of the "messengers" were for telling off Hitler and Mussolini. Thereupon a German Baptist bitterly accused the congress of not understanding Germany, while an Italian defended Il Duce as Baptism's protector against the Roman Catholic Church. Dr. Rushbrooke, with no particular national ax to grind, made a speech which further suggested that, in Europe, religious minorities like the Baptists try to play off governments against established churches. He blamed "the sinister figure of the priest," rather than King Carol, for Baptist troubles in Rumania. He paid...