Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Mussolini Speaks, an anthology of Italian newsreel shots released in the U. S. last week as a feature picture, has gone much extremely dim, blurry photography, but Il Duce comes to life, especially his face. Even Italians who sang Fascist anthems and cheered the preview in Manhattan last week, rocked with mirth at the Premier's rubbery platform face...
...subject of honeymoons Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, and Il Papa, Pius XI, are in close harmony (see above). On the subject of Fascism, either black or brown shirted. they are not. Last week, with the German Catholic Centrist party fighting for its life at Adolf Hitler's polls, the Papal daily L'Osservatore Romano deplored the thrusting aside of German Democracy by German Fascism...
...Savagely Il Tevere, militant organ of Italian Fascism, retorted: "L'Osservatore contradicts its doctrine [of not interfering in politics] by this comment. . . . 'L'Osservatore shows strange tenderness for Social Democrats, excessive hospitality to equivocal news and decided partiality in distribution of its sympathies ... a most dangerous fall from Catholic immunity...
Seven months ago Benito Mussolini, patron of fecundity, decreed that Italian newly weds would be charged only 30% of the regular Italian State Railway fare for a round-trip to Rome from any part of the kingdom. Last week Il Duce let the world know that his honeymoon rates have drawn 14.000 newly weds to Rome- 2,000 couples per month. Most of them call at the Vatican where each bride is given a rosary, each groom a medal...
...they were originally made at Hirtenberg. Actually they were bound for Hungarian troops. Fortnight ago Italian papers splashed out revelations of a secret joint note from France and Britain to Austria demanding that the 50,000 Hirtenberg guns be either destroyed or shipped back to Italy (TIME, Feb. 27). Il Duce's protests at this "ultimatum" did not change the fact that the Austrian government of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is dependent on French and British loans. The Chancellor prepared to knuckle down to his big creditors...