Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There the Big Three of last week, grim Aloisi, affable Laval and Britain's young Captain Anthony Eden, who vividly remembers the talking-to he recently received in Rome from Il Duce, sat around devising what the League calls a "formula." Every few hours Baron Aloisi would read the latest text by long distance telephone to Premier Mussolini and the Dictator would snort, ''Unacceptable...
...Government a suggestion thrown out in debate by Liberal Leader Sir Herbert Samuel that Britain and France join in guaranteeing Italian territory against aggression by Ethiopia. This cynical suggestion, and Sir Herbert frankly admitted his cynicism, was taken up by Sir Samuel as a means of calling Il Duce's bluff that Italy is proceeding in ''self-defense" against Ethiopia instead of in pure aggression. After calling Sir Herbert's suggestion "most interesting" and promising to transmit it to Geneva, Sir Samuel added, with what seemed to Italians mealy-mouthed British hypocrisy: "We are dealing with...
...Dictator, normally harsh, direct and plain, deliberately engaged with President Litvinoff in an exchange of views on the Ethiopian issue so vague, involved and fuzzy that Geneva minions could not figure out whether Il Duce meant that Italians would appear in the Council this week...
...Il Duce handed to King Vittorio Emanuele...
...understood Italians better than anyone else, Dictator Mussolini considers that in an hour when all investments are bad, the best is to speculate on a program of conquest or, better still, obtain Ethiopia by intimidation. No leader ever fell and no people ever revolted or were basically unhappy, Il Duce feels, while they were expanding their frontiers...