Word: duces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Packards are right, the Duce's balcony empire now rests uneasily on a volcano, which, like Vesuvius, may erupt at the next earth tremor...
...years Benito Mussolini roared grandiose nonsense from his balcony. He rubbed snow on his bare chest for photographers. To his superstitious peasants he proclaimed that war was the natural state of a healthy nation. Last week, in a small voice. Il Duce urged his people: "Tener Duro" ("Hold firm...
...unnatural Mussolini's state of war is to the Italian people was evident after bombers had swarmed over Milan. Public outcries and wall inscriptions calling for peace led Il Duce to change governors and purge his Party leadership. When King Vittorio Emanuel and his Queen, aping Britain's monarchs, visited Milan and Turin, haggard, frightened civilians chanted, "We want peace...
...Duce had expected to celebrate his 59th birthday in Egypt. When Tobruk fell he rushed through the air to North Africa to lead the victorious march into Alexandria. On the way. R.A.F. pilots knocked down a convoying plane, killing his personal chef and personal barber. Loss of the barber was not so bad, since II Duce is as bald as a monkey's bottom, but loss of the cook was dismal. Then Rommel was stopped, and there could be no triumphal procession...
...Duce hung around for a while, finally returned to Rome. There, last week, the usual greetings arrived from Adolf Hitler: "On the occasion of your birthday . . . Duce." It did seem that Herr Hitler might quit reminding him of it. In Rome the subject was not mentioned...