Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stories of restiveness verging on mutiny aboard British ships sent into the Mediterranean to intimidate Il Duce have several times been carried by Italian papers, generally ignored as "Mussolini whistling to keep his people's courage...
...Italy, the League and Ethiopia (see p. 21). To make Emperor Haile Selassie more satisfied than he otherwise might have been, Dictator Mussolini opened up last week for the first time with 200-lb. air bombs (see p. 21). Premier Laval, who months ago as Foreign Minister sold Il Duce a free hand in Ethiopia so far as France is concerned (TIME, Jan 14), was glad to have The Deal approved last week by the British Foreign Secretary-disavowal of whom by His Majesty's Government would be an international scandal of the first magnitude- but he realized that...
This was comforting news for squadron commanders and Italian aviators, heartily weary of the overpublicized exploits of Il Duce's son-in-law, Count Ciano, but it was sad news for the World Press. Flung into a feudal land, correspondents in Addis Ababa and behind the Ethiopian troops have been able to send no first-hand news at all in eight weeks of warfare. Marshal Badoglio's order last week meant that all the elaborate mechanism of the international Press will take more time to tell the world less than did Editor Horace Greeley or Artist-Correspondent Winslow...
...Fascist Press clarioned "Use your car only for business! On pleasure bent take a train or a bus." Excited schoolchildren, marshaled by their teachers, shrilled "We want no heat in our schoolrooms all winter!" Outside school hours Fascist moppets of both sexes scampered about collecting scrap metal for II Duce. He contributed quantities of bronze busts of himself for melting into bullets. A Royal Duke chipped in three pounds of gold. While priests collected wedding rings for the State, the Archbishop of Milan coined golden words: "God is with Italy and Italy with God! Our soldiers in Ethiopia are destroyers...
...products denied Italy. Abruptly the British, who ostensibly had been driving for this end, joined the French in causing the League to "postpone" any such action. This about-face caught the Roosevelt Administration a neat clip, transferred much Italian resentment from London and Paris to Washington. There II Duce's representatives said with upped eyebrows that the White House seemed to be "outsanctioning the sanctionists," all of whom at latest reports were still selling oil to Italy...