Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because, in the loneliness of Power, Il Duce admits no other mortal to close friendship he spends most of his evenings alone, finds distraction, when not working, in his violin and in censoring cinemas. Came news last week that the Dictator had shushed the U. S. feature length film Mussolini Speaks, banned it from ever being shown in Italy. Patched together from newsreel shots, it parades for over an hour the electrifying facial mannerisms of Orator Mussolini (see cut) (TIME, March 20). The Dictator's crisp reason for shushing Mussolini Speaks: "Not timely enough"- all of the patched-together...
...their dollar. In II Duce's view inflation or debasement is a slick way of cutting wages and prices under the pretense of raising them. For an undisciplined nation such slickery may be the only way, but it is not the way of a Mussolini. Once before, when Il Duce stabilized the lira on gold, he cut Italian wages and prices (TIME, May 30, 1927). In 1930 he forced every salary in Italy, all rent, light, heat, food and transport charges down between 10% and 12%. Details of the new cuts were being worked out last week...
Ever since Benito Mussolini married off a sloe-eyed daughter of Italian King Vittorio-Emanuele III to earnest Tsar Boris of Bulgaria, France and her "Little Entente" Allies have been working to counteract Il Duce's supposed influence on the Bulgarian Court. Both Little Entente kings-Carol of Rumania and Alexander of Jugoslavia-have been courting Boris. A "Three-Kings Conference" of Boris, Carol and Alexander is in prospect at Sofia on Jan. 31, the day after Boris's next birthday. Last week the Tsar of the Bulgars took his Italian-born Tsaritsa to Jugoslavia to break...
Deliberately the Grand Council did not postulate last week how the framework of the League should be changed. Il Duce's strategy is not to try to impose a solution (Italy is not strong enough for that) but to make Rome the rallying point of all foes of the League-as-it-is. Let others suggest what the League should become; then, when official suggestions begin to roll in, Italy will add hers to the pot and Il Duce will try to emerge as Chief Cook...
...judge from Fascist editorials, Cook Mussolini favors: 1) explicit divorcement of the League Covenant from the Treaty of Versailles (which Il Duce has long held should be revised to appease Germany and bestow on Italy certain territories which she was promised before she entered the War but failed to get at the Peace Conference); 2) expulsion of common nations from the League Council which would become a permanent committee of Great Powers, nebulously "responsible" to the Democratic League Assembly of all states; 3) drastic reduction in League expenditures and personnel on the theory that Geneva has become a hive...