Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast Italy's outstanding exception to such Fascist mores can also be found in Il Duce's family. Although Signor Mussolini's favorite and eldest child, Edda, has done her duty to the State by giving birth to two future soldiers and one future housewife, she has not toiled unduly in the kitchen and has not hesitated to enter the male province of international politics...
...made a liar out of his Ambassador by violating pledges as fast as they were given, Count Grandi was able to persuade Prime Ministers Baldwin and Chamberlain to negotiate Mediterranean settlements guaranteeing the status quo. It was only when Italian Blackshirts invaded Albania that Britain reluctantly decided that Il Duce could not be trusted and turned to Russia...
Last week Edda Ciano's husband, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, paid an official visit to Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain. The Countess for once did not go along. The Countess' father, Il Duce, was summering in central Italy at Rocca delle Caminate, still keeping the vow of silence he publicly took at Cuneo, in northern Italy, last May. Edda herself was at the island of Capri, across from the Bay of Naples, supervising the building of a villa at her (and the late Emperor Tiberius') favorite recreation spot...
...secret has it been that the gaunt, pale-faced Edda is hopeful that her somewhat mediocre young husband may some day become Il Duce II. A possible obstacle is Prince Umberto, who is accepted, rightly or wrongly, as the spearhead of opposition to Axis policies which Count and Countess Ciano champion...
...first Fascia di Combattimento, and by the time of the famed March on Rome in 1922 (when Benito took a sleeper to Rome, however) she had grown into an impetuous, violent tempered, but intelligent and alert girl of twelve. So undisciplined was the child at one time that Il Duce gave her a strict English governess by the name of Gibson -the same name as that of an Irishwoman who had tried to pot Il Duce with a revolver in 1926. Sent from one school to another, Edda finally acquired a social and cultural veneer, an expertness on piano...