Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtain by means of concessions to Germany the co-operation of Realmleader Adolf Hitler in boycotting Italy. This discovery threw the Soviet Union overnight from high gear into low so far as the League is concerned. Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff, whose voice at Geneva has been loudest against Il Duce, abruptly decided not to attend the League Assembly last week when it met to approve sanctions, sending instead Vladimir Potemkin, Soviet Ambassador to France. In Moscow leading Government newsorgans charged that Britain was attempting to "bribe" not only Germany but also Japan. Since these two countries are Russia...
Austria was represented at Geneva last week by eloquent old Herr Emeric von Pflüql. Referring to Il Duce's prompt massing of Italian troops on the frontier of Austria, which prevented the backers of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss' assassins from seizing the Government (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), snowy-haired Delegate von Pflüql cried: "Austria will never forget that at a fateful moment in her history it was Italy who, in the best spirit of the League Covenant, helped by her attitude to safeguard the integrity of another League member, my country. Our friendship with Italy...
...Dictator. "The League of Nations, like the loveliest girl in the world, cannot give more than it has. ... I am in conversation with England. . . . Conflict between our two nations is inconceivable." "Until now the English have considered the Italians as a gay, picturesque and agreeable people," continued II Duce. "It has never come into the English mind until recently that Italy could have a will of her own and a complete independence in regard to England. . . " Since Britain assured Italy officially that her fleet concentration in the Mediterranean is not anti-Italian (TIME, Oct. 7), the Dictator urged that tension...
This was parroted by German officials high & low last week while the Realmleader kept mum. Every wiseacre in Europe was saying that win, lose or draw for Italy, the Ethiopian war must prove a victory for Germany. If II Duce is permitted or succeeds anyhow in snatching colonial territory, Der Führer after that can scarcely be halted eventually in his announced purpose of "redeeming" the onetime Imperial German overseas colonies now held by other Great Powers. If on the other hand, Dictator Mussolini is balked by the League of Nations, the Italian attitude toward France is sure...
...Colonel Jouett's contract expired, Generalissimo Chiang declined to renew it, has now turned his air force over to native officials and Italian experts under Rome's suave General Lordi. This switch resulted directly from efforts by Benito Mussolini over a period of years. In 1934 II Duce flattered Generalissimo Chiang by accrediting to his Government an Ambassador-since when Japan, Great Britain, the U. S. and Germany have followed suit. Recently Generalissimo Chiang accepted an Italian bombing plane as a gift from Dictator Mussolini (TIME, June 24) and last week, with U. S. air advisers to China...