Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile strong & healthy Benito Mussolini was having his go at Anthony Eden. The Dictator, no novice in the fine art of getting the jump on public opinion, caused announcements to be made while Captain Eden was his guest which provoked abroad such headlines as BRITISH AGREE TO LET Il DUCE RULE ETHIOPIA and REPORT PACT FOR PARTITION OF ETHIOPIA. Premier Mussolini had just raised his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano from Undersecretary to Minister for Press Relations and the Count proceeded to make good last week. Not until Captain Eden emerged from Italy did the World Press tune change...
...weeks he has been morally reproached by British newsorgans for his designs on Ethiopia. "On,the one hand Britain has attempted to invoke the League of Nations to restrain Italy, and on the other hand, Britain sanctions with Germany treaty violations presumably repugnant to all good league members!" exclaimed Il Duce's family newsorgan Il Popolo d'Italia. It added sarcastically: "Maybe, some day, the British-German accord will be pompously registered with the League, presumably, too, with the assent of the Delegate of Ethiopia...
Next job for Minister Eden was to soft-soap Premier Mussolini, clarify his country's position. To that end smooth Mr. Eden trickled down to Rome, turned on his charm. Il Duce likewise turned on his charm, with the result that their conversation was marked by a cordiality quite removed from the slight frigidity which attended Mr. Eden's explanations to France. Reserving most of his diplomatic honey for a second conversation to be held next day, Mr. Eden nevertheless found time in two hours to assure Signor Mussolini that Britain would make no further bilateral agreements with...
Britain being surfeited with colonies, her moralizing newsorgans have been roundly roasting Il Duce. Last week he shut out of Italy the Manchester Guardian and London's Daily Herald, Sunday Express and Evening Standard. Then a secretary laid on the Dictator's desk a pair of cable reports which got under his ex-editor's skin. The New York Times had just taken new British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's strictures against dictators (TIME, June 17) as the text for an editorial observing: "Mussolini has kept himself in power longer than most people thought possible...
...increasingly drastic mood, Il Duce ordered Italians to surrender all silver coins in their possession for paper, his Government requiring the silver to pay campaign expenses in Africa where blackamoors remain unshakably convinced that no kind of paper money is any good...