Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauteous little Italian town. Last week Stresa's 2,000 inhabitants were outnumbered by Fascist detectives, police and militia protecting the lives of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his Foreign Minister Sir John Simon, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and his Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini, Duce del Fascismo e Capo del Governo who is his own Foreign Minister. All one could smell was fresh paint...
...Wreck, Put-putting motorboats carried the French and British out from their hotel to Emperor Napoleon's erstwhile palace on an island where Benito Mussolini slept nightly last week in "the Josephine bed." Il Duce, once a reporter covering European conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands...
Wholly Pleasing. After a final, driving session with Il Duce in the chair, the put-putting motorboats carried ashore what was called a "pleasant surprise." Almost too smily as they landed and faced the Press and newscameramen, the English and French laughed, chortled, beamed. Apparently in the highest good humor, they announced "definite achievement" and "complete agreement" among the three Great Powers. Some things done at Stresa...
...Finally, what conference could end without whelping another Conference? Place: Rome. Date: probably May 20. Subject: Austria. At Stresa it was found impossible for Britain to join Italy and France in an iron-clad guarantee to support Austria as a bulwark against Nazidom, but Il Duce demands that this be thrashed out, insists that His Britannic Majesty's Government make up their minds...
...Premier Benito Mussolini something to think about by going down to the terminus of Abyssinia's French-owned railway* and taking delivery of what His Majesty referred to as 400 machine guns, 20,000 rifles and 6,000,000 rounds of ammunition made in Czechoslovakia and Belgium. II Duce's air-tight censorship continued to obscure what, if anything, the 75,000 troops he has sent to Africa (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) are doing. Last week 100,000 Abyssinian troops were supposed to have been sent slogging down through the mud toward Italian Somaliland. In Addis Ababa...