Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duce has not yet said what he will do if the League does right by Ethiopia and indicts Italy for the rape of the dusky virgin to the south. But Europe knows the stormy petrol of Rome well enough to be sure that strong-arm action on the part of Geneva will send the third illustrious guest belting from a party which he considers to be getting too wild to suit his simple tastes. With Italy, Germany, and Japan forming a harmonious trio off in a corner thumbing their noses at the League of Nations, France and Great Britain would...
Obeying strict orders, they flew slowly. The planes spent the night at Marseille, then took six hours to fly to Rome. Fascist air officials were waiting for General Denain, rushed him to a natural amphitheatre on the Pincian hill where Il Duce was scowling paternally at a socialite horse show...
...Duce's vast drafty office in the Palazzo Venezia details of that plan were worked out. An aerial defense treaty between France and Italy alone was drawn up providing that, if either nation was attacked, the combined fleets would attack the aggressor. It is intended to invite Belgium, Germany and Great Britain to adhere to the agreement as soon as possible. It was indicated last week that Great Britain would make no promises but was thoroughly in favor of the plan as far as it has gone...
After the maneuver airmen call a "dog fight," Il Duce's diving, threatening, corner-cutting planes scared the Nazi pilot into a forced landing, seized two German long-range telescopic cameras. While several Milan correspondents vouched for this news, the Dictator's official press bureau blandly announced that there had been no such incident, the theory of Benito Mussolini being that when Nazis have to be curbed by their own strong-arm methods, the less said about it the better...
...Hitler, and his name begins with the same letters as Mussolini. If Queen Wilhelmina would let members of his N. S. B. wear distinctive "political shirts," Engineer Mussert has said that they would be not brown but black. He talks about installing in the Netherlands a version of Il Duce's Corporative State with buxom Queen Wilhelmina shrunk in political size to match peewee Victor Emanuel...