Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Adolf Hitler flew to Venice to clasp hands with Benito Mussolini. After a vegetarian lunch and a heart-to-heart the two Dictators found no matter of importance on which they could then cooperate. Meanwhile, Il Duce had conceived the project of making Italy, Britain, Germany and France the dominating hierarchy of Europe. These nations actually signed his Four-Power Pact only to quarrel over the Ethiopian war and Der Führer's tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles. Last week began a great new effort by Italy and Germany to erect a European hierarchy...
Italians: To the St. Louis Il Pensiero he wrote congratulations on completion of an Italian-American community hall. Excerpt: "Our citizens of Italian extraction have rendered valuable contributions through the years in making America the nation it is today...
Astonishingly the Fascist Dictator, after cogitating with Italian economists in closest secrecy for a week, adopted exactly the same procedure as had the Socialist French Premier. Il Duce decreed 40% reduction in the value of the lira, bringing it to approximately 19 lire per dollar, and he also sweepingly reduced Italian import duties. Thus Fascist Italy, ordinarily considered a super-Nationalist State, was the first to follow the French lead to tariff appeasement and a better economic world. To Washington and to London was presented a supreme opportunity to join in for international economic peace and increasingly Free Trade...
...Locals of the Vienna Heimwehr, however, mutinously announced with a 17-to-4 vote that they still supported Fey, and the split in this private army widened rapidly. Cynical Austrians thought last week that Mussolini would now apportion his largesse in such fashion as to close the breach. Meanwhile Il Duce was more concerned with Austria's public army than with her private army, encouraged the Viennese Government to flout the Treaty of St. Germain by last week calling 8,000 21-year-old youths to compulsory military service...
About 60,000 expectant peasant mothers will immediately benefit, receiving cash compensation for pay lost while they must stop work, and something besides for the midwife. However, Italian farm mothers of the type to whom Il Duce geared his oration last week are apt to consider the calling in of a doctor or midwife no more necessary for a healthy woman than for a healthy...