Word: il
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second thrust of Il Duce was to issue a decree suppressing the Catholic Boy Scouts and all other youth organizations not directly Fascist...
Last week the strained situation thus indicated led finally to an overt and acrimonious interchange of statements by His Holiness and Il Duce. When the lightning of their irritation had cleared the air, all hopes for a settlement of the Roman Question, this year, had gone glimmering...
...Supreme Pontiff's outburst came after a Centrist Catholic political rally had assembled at Rome, last week, and adopted a resolution pledging loyalty to the Papacy and the State in the same breath. Further, the Centrist convention waited upon Il Duce but sought no audience with His Holiness. Further still, they resolved: "The identity, ideals, and views of the Centrists are identical with those of Fascism...
...sooner had Il Duce entertained Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere, in audience, at Rome last week, than His Lordship rushed to cable the Daily Mail, over his personal signature, and with an abrupt, excited opening paragraph, as follows...
Lord Rothermere, secure in the knowledge that Il Duce is now politically a Black, wrote on, last week, in somewhat mystic vein...