Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...edge of the skiff which teetered dangerously as he pulled himself aboard, sat down sopping at the tiller while Chancellor Dollfuss rowed the skiff out of earshot of plebeian bathers. During their rowboat conference the two statesmen undoubtedly discussed: 1) the Italian-Austrian-Hungarian trade pact negotiated by Il Duce and Premier Julius Gömbös in Rome (TIME, Aug. 7); 2) the fact that anti-Dollfuss propaganda was again being broadcast to Austria from German radio stations last week, despite the Hitler Government's assurance to Premier Mussolini that such propaganda would cease (TIME...
...tall) flew to the Adriatic beach resort of Riccione for a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini, found him swimming offshore and disinclined to come in. For Chancellor Dollfuss to have waited abjectly on the beach would have been too undignified. He hired a small skiff, rowed out to where Il Duce was floating on his back...
After a further conference at Riccione's Grand Hotel the two statesmen issued a communiqué from which it was clear that Chancellor Dollfuss agreed to Il Duce's plans for an Italo-Austrian-Hungarian bloc in return for Italian support of his regime. "Austrian independence" was laid down as a "basic principle" by Chancellor Dollfuss, according to the communiqué and both statesmen "perceived that there exists between them a common identity of ideas regarding the problems examined...
Another goal won gloriously by Italians last week justified the electric signs set up in Rome to welcome back Italy's Air Armada from the Chicago Exposition with this blazing boast: . "At the Order of Il Duce All Goals Are Reached!" (TIME...
When these words of Dr. Piperno's come to his ears- "Questo si fara soffrire un poco" (This is going to hurt a little)- Il Duce does not groan and stiffen his limbs. Instead he merely growls, "Non temo il dolore" (I do not fear pain...