Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Decision to Struggle. Meanwhile Dictator Mussolini continued in cold blood to make efficient preparations last week for his Ethiopia-snatching war, thus giving other statesmen every opportunity to prove their humanitarianism by trying to stop him. II Duce went to the length of publicly demonstrating a compound produced by Italian chemists to be strewn by Italian airplanes on the soil of Ethiopia to sear and burn the proverbially bare feet of Emperor Power of Trinity's savage troops. At the demonstration a photographer trod on the stuff, was picked up by Italian soldiers and rushed to a watering trough...
Same day tall, fair Vittorio Mussolini, 18, and chunky, dark Bruno Mussolini, 17, the youngest regularly licensed air pilots in Italy, called on their father as Minister of Aviation, to enlist for fighting service against Ethiopia. Fascists present said that Il Duce received his sons with a visible effort to master his feelings as a father, grunted a wordless assent to their request, dashed his signature upon their papers of enlistment...
...week with the thankless task of defending Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's extraordinary move of letting Premier Benito Mussolini know that His Majesty's Government would have been willing to cede some British territory to Ethiopia if that Empire could have been thus induced to make concessions to Il Duce sufficient to halt his prospective colonial war (TIME, July...
...orders in Yugoslavia. At the port and frontier city of Susak, where Italian and Yugoslav guards with fixed bayonets have glared at each other for years across barbed wire entanglements, suddenly last week Yugoslavian wheat began to pour in a golden tide onto Italian ships, paid for with Il Duce's pegged-to-gold lire...
...Salads! After being received in Rome by Il Duce, Premier Lyons, who in Paris had made no effort to meet Premier Laval or any other French statesman, cried, "I want to pay homage to Mussolini. . . . He has done immense good." At the Vatican devout Joseph Aloysius and Enid Lyons, who in Scotland had been jeered by a handful of irrepressibles as "Papists!" knelt before the Supreme Pontiff. His Holiness imparted the Apostolic Benediction and observed, "We still preserve a most pleasant recollection of the great triumph of the Church represented in the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney, Australia" (TIME, Sept...