Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When terse, provocative Benito Mussolini feels that someone in authority should ramble on to the Italian people in soothing, fireside-chat fashion, Il Duce is apt to set his Foreign Minister and son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, a-chatting. In Rome last week the Chamber of Fasci & Corporations convened, Mussolini sitting quietly amid his newly revamped Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 13), and the Count talked for an hour and 53 minutes, mainly about how World War II began and why Italy is jolly well staying...
...much as he criticized the Allies, the Foreign Minister also raised an eyebrow at the Nazis. Mussolini, he said, "was the first to denounce the peril of Bolshevism," and the Count's speech reassured Italians that while Il Duce remains friendly with the Führer, the Rome-Berlin Axis is not going to be extended to Moscow. This was a plain intimation that Italy thought Germany had run out on the Anti-Comintern Pact. Moreover, the Italians were warned of the Russian-German treaty only two days before it was signed. "At 10 o'clock...
...wild reports that Friedrich Wilhelm had been "beheaded as a traitor"-he was seen going about the capital in his usual haunts -and it was presently rumored that the Fiihrer might decide to enthrone a likely candidate as Emperor and serve under this figurehead as Chancellor-as II Duce serves under Vittorio Emanuele III. Theory of this shift would be to save the faces of Allied statesmen who may want to deal with the Nazi regime but feel they cannot do so unless some disguise-however transparent-is arranged...
Last week Italy not only suddenly removed six Cabinet members but went a long way toward changing allies when Il Duce violently shook up the Fascist hierarchy. The side-changing had been hopefully expected by Great Britain and France for some weeks, but few had supposed so many big Government heads would roll in accompaniment...
...revised ending of Geneva brings the news that Hitler's troops have invaded Poland. Gloats Der Führer: "While you have been talking, my army has been doing." He turns to Mussolini for help. "Do you suppose," barks Il Duce, "that I am going to ruin my country to make you emperor of the universe?" He turns to the diplomat, taunting him that England will not fight. "Fight? We shall wipe you off the face of the earth!" He turns defiantly to them all: "I shall sweep through Poland like a hurricane." "Do so by all means, Comrade...