Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virtual carte blanche from France, with Britain's implied approval, to go as far as Il Duce likes in encroaching upon Abyssinia from Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland...
...exactly drawn. With the telltale map whisked out of the way, the League Council sat down to hear from Italian Delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi more about Abyssinian "aggression.'' There was, for example, the preliminary incident at Gondar, when Abyssinians shot an Italian consulate guard, after which II Duce magnanimously exacted nothing more than a 1,000 lire ($85) indemnity. In Rome last week the modern Caesar was acclaimed, as every leader is who brings home really big bacon...
Since U. S. radio listeners also thought the crowd laughed, scant attention was paid when Il Duce's son-in-law and press chief Excellency Count Ciano protested: "If Americans heard Mussolini on the radio they heard no laughter, much less 'gales of laughter.' When the Duce mentioned France they heard an expectant hush among the people-a hush awaiting what he had to say-and after he said it they heard unanimous applause...
...entente being thus well toasted, Mussolini and Laval again sat down at the big table, this time for three more hours of slugging, off-the-record negotiation. They proceeded to talk turkey about Italy's ambition to have naval equality with France, about French insistence that Il Duce stop flirting with the idea of ultimate revision of the Treaties of Versailles, Trianon. St. Germain, etc. More especially they talked about Abyssinia...
...France toward bringing Germany to a reasonable stabilization of her armaments and in inducing the Fatherland to return to the League; 3) that Austrian independence shall be guaranteed by a general pact of the Danubian States, plus Italy and France, with Britain invited to adhere; 4) that Il Duce's pet Four-Power Pact, which the Little Entente once almost succeeded in quashing (TIME, May 29), will be revived and expanded as a general European Pact pledging all signatories to consult with one another when peace is threatened...