Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wreck, Put-putting motorboats carried the French and British out from their hotel to Emperor Napoleon's erstwhile palace on an island where Benito Mussolini slept nightly last week in "the Josephine bed." Il Duce, once a reporter covering European conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands...
Wholly Pleasing. After a final, driving session with Il Duce in the chair, the put-putting motorboats carried ashore what was called a "pleasant surprise." Almost too smily as they landed and faced the Press and newscameramen, the English and French laughed, chortled, beamed. Apparently in the highest good humor, they announced "definite achievement" and "complete agreement" among the three Great Powers. Some things done at Stresa...
...Finally, what conference could end without whelping another Conference? Place: Rome. Date: probably May 20. Subject: Austria. At Stresa it was found impossible for Britain to join Italy and France in an iron-clad guarantee to support Austria as a bulwark against Nazidom, but Il Duce demands that this be thrashed out, insists that His Britannic Majesty's Government make up their minds...
...people stand with Hitler; but the people of France and Britain have no stomach to stand today against Nazidom or with leaders who would take strong action. To Premier Mussolini, brooding alone, this state of affairs seemed to demand candor and he gave it straight from the shoulder in Il Popolo d'Italia...
Searching for an epithet with which to lash Italian husbands and wives who indulge in birth control, Benito Mussolini in his family newsorgan. Il Popolo d'Italia coined the scathing descriptive phrase "mere gymnastic love...