Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people of the U. S. S. R. last wee was Harvest. From masses of figures appearing daily in the official Press, no or could be quite sure whether there woul be enough sour black bread when winter comes. The United Press reported the the Government had only 45% of il planned requirements for July. Other reports were less prophetic of starvation...
...Italians then moved off in a body down the hall, summoned by Il Duce who had already heard of the rumpus and had at once called up General Balbo from Rome. General Balbo immediately demanded either a formal apology from Socialist Renaudel, who again refused to apologize, or the ousting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union from the premises. It was thereupon ousted by Secretary General of the League of Nations Sir Eric Drummond...
Last week rule No. 2 was worked. Bearded Dino Grandi, for three years Foreign Minister, and Minister of Corporations Giuseppe Bottai were removed from office. Il Duce himself took over both their portfolios, the first of which he has held before. The move was particularly surprising to U. S. readers. Only two days prior they had read in the New York Times Biographer Emil Ludwig's interview with Mussolini in which Il Duce had said...
Knowing observers realized some weeks ago that it was nearly time for another Fascist shift, and last week came particular reason for Il Duce to be displeased with his Foreign Minister. Dino Grandi was a delegate to Lausanne, yet the Franco-British Accord de Confiance was apparently as much of a surprise to him as it was to editors in the U. S. The accord contained a joker particularly unpleasant to Italy: a deeply buried hint of Franco-British naval accord in the Mediterranean. Benito Mussolini dealt gently with his deposed Grandi. Day after his removal was announced, Grandi...
Last fortnight Father Cox visited the Vatican. Before leaving Rome, with the Vatican as his sounding board, he told the editor of Il Tevere in an interview that he would poll 17 million votes among the U. S. unemployed, not to speak of the ex-service men. Father Cox invited Il Tevere's editor to lunch with him in the White House some time after...