Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly every kind of hot news story about Benito Mussolini began to sizzle in capitals from one end of Europe to the other last week, while Il Duce made still more news in sizzling Africa...
Mussolini was charged by the Madrid Defense Junta with having committed a slip tending to prove that Italians fighting in Spain are not "volunteers" as Rome maintains but Italian regulars. What Madrid claimed was a message from Il Duce flashed to Italian commanders in Spain which read : "Aboard the Pola on my way to Libya I have received your dispatches...
Mussolini's small-statured sovereign Vittorio Emanuele III canceled at Rome last week the Italian delegation headed by Crown Prince Umberto which was to have represented His Majesty at the British Coronation. Reason: Vittorio Emanuele III and his subjects, including Il Duce, are united in considering His Majesty not only King of Italy but also Emperor of Ethiopia, united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure...
...idyll lasted only a short time. In accordance with her usual customs, she talked too much. Rumors reached the ear of Il Duce, which made him doubt both the discretion, and fidelity of the pretty foreigner. A Minister warned Mussolini that he was risking the annoyance of a petty scandal...
...result was that the young woman was no more received by Mussolini. Weeks passed during which she wrote Il Duce letters that went unanswered. The automobile at her disposal was withdrawn and hotel bills accumulated unpaid. One morning she was found unconscious in her room after having taken an overdose of veronal. "She remained several days in a hospital. During that time Italian police seized her papers, notably her private diary in which her adventures with Mussolini were recorded. Mussolini, when shown the diary, was touched to see that what to him had been of no importance, had become...