Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Rome. Darting raids by Italian bombers, unaccompanied by troop operations on the ground, have resulted in little more than the enemy's terror and disorganization. After major advances there have been sudden, desultory lulls. Because concurrent maneuvers on the Diplomatic Front have been secret and clandestine, II Duce is perhaps as good a judge as any of whether bombs and calms judiciously sprinkled in the world press have much affected the game on Europe's green tables. In soldiers' eyes the Italians have made a wretched showing in Ethiopia, and to soldiers Italy's diplomatic...
...pressure induced Turkey, the Little Entente and Greece verbally to promise Mr. Eden at Geneva that their armed aid could be counted on by Britain were she attacked. The little states were asked to pass this on to Benito Mussolini but declined. Thereat Britain conveyed the information to Il Duce anyhow, with the unexpected result that Italy redoubled her threats and Britain agreed to "The Deal"-only to repudiate it afterward and leave Turkey, the Little Entente and Greece bitterly complaining to Geneva correspondents this week that they had been used as cats-paws by the British Lion. The meat...
...defiant cause, while the 46,000,000 subjects of King George V in Great Britain and Northern Ireland were in a confused state of mind under a Prime Minister who publicly deplored last week the telegraph and methods "speedy" or "modern" (see p. 14), infuriated and aroused Il Duce with his rapid-fire brain, his passion for driving fast cars and his penniless origin. In white-hot anger Benito Mussolini, addressing colonists on the Pontine Marshes, which he has drained and in which last week he opened on schedule another new little city, roared: "This is a day of Italian...
...When Il Duce got back to Rome he had his Grand Council cite The Deal as "repudiated" by Britain and had all Italy plastered with fresh slogan stickers reading: "There is always Reason in what Mussolini does...
Such wit brought immediate acquittal by the Fascist court and Signor Emanuel was soon out, good-humoredly twitting U. S. and British correspondents in Rome about the jitters into which his detention for 52 days had thrown them. He scoffed the story that Il Duce had taken offense because of rumors that Signor Emanuel had referred to him as "Banjo-Eyes." Describing himself as "a man who, whatever be his faults, has a good liver and a smiling character," irrepressible Guglielmo Emanuel flatly denied ever having called anybody banjo-eyed and vowed he had never before heard the expression...