Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Italian Fascism is the personification of youth and Benito Mussolini is the embodiment of Fascism, one of the embarrassments of Italy today is that Il Duce is growing old. Last week Dictator Mussolini was 56, but unlike his German comrade, Adolf Hitler, whose birthdays are celebrated with more splendor each year, Il Duce preferred not to have his mentioned...
...birthplace in the valley below, where 10,000 peasants from all parts of Italy greeted him with gifts of wine, fruit, spaghetti, cheese, olive oil. He reviewed them, told them his spirit was "unchangeably rural." They in turn filed past the tomb of Alessandro and Rosa Maltoni Mussolini, Il Duce's parents, visited the house where Benito Mussolini was born and the blacksmith shop where his father worked...
...newspapers in Italy carried three-column headlines describing the ceremonies, not one journal mentioned the fact that Dictator Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883. Newspaper proprietors perhaps remembered the case of one enterprising journalist who found himself without a job after he had published a picture of Il Duce standing beside Italo Balbo, now Governor General of Libya. Governor Balbo looked years younger than Dictator Mussolini. Editors in Italy do not refer to Il Duce as a grandfather; they understand that the picture of Signor Mussolini slipping gracefully into old age is not for Fascist consumption. Featured instead...
...their marriage Count Ciano & wife were packed off to China, where he was first Consul General at Shanghai, then Minister to China. Recalled to Italy in 1933, he became Under Secretary of State, then Minister for Press & Propaganda, and it began to appear that Edda, the apple of Il Duce's eye, could get for Husband Galeazzo just about any job she wished...
...over Aduwa. His plane was the first to be hit by an enemy bullet. He was the first Italian flier to land in Addis Ababa at the war's end. For all this Galeazzo was promoted to the rank of major and was awarded two silver medals. Il Duce began to be convinced he had the makings of a leader; the Count reciprocated by aping the postures, speech, manners of his father-in-law. When he returned home the portfolio of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs awaited him, although he was only...