Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision should be taken against Italy I shall leave the League," Il Duce told London's Sunday Chronicle in a zero hour interview. "What I have started I will finish...
Since membership in the League requires that the member state have a strong central government and eschew slavery, Il Duce's drift was that the League can save its face by dropping Ethiopia as unworthy of membership and commissioning Italy, who has no slaves and does possess a strong central government, to bring the backward Empire up to date. Only thing wrong with this Fascist argument on its face was that in 1923, when inexperienced Benito Mussolini had been Premier of Italy for only a few months, the Italian Delegation stood sponsor to Ethiopia and enabled that Empire...
...wounded men, told that he would lose his sight, cried out, "Then I want to see Il Duce before I go blind!" During the World War, when Corporal Benito Mussolini was down with 42 shrapnel splinters in his epidermis, King Vittorio Emanuele came to his hospital bedside. Last week the Dictator hurried to the wounded man who had asked...
These seven ministers and the Premier were joined by five other ministers and Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace. They first sent greetings to the absent Cabinet member who sailed fortnight ago to fight in Africa, Il Duce's son-in-law Count Ciano. Then, getting down to business, the Cabinet acted as a sounding board from which the Dictator announced that Italy was forthwith put on a war basis for the next three years...
Meanwhile Il Duce had batches of musty treaties and agreements dug up by his Foreign Office to prove that Italy can treat whatever Fat Chaps has been granted as null and void...