Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When terse, provocative Benito Mussolini feels that someone in authority should ramble on to the Italian people in soothing, fireside-chat fashion, Il Duce is apt to set his Foreign Minister and son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, a-chatting. In Rome last week the Chamber of Fasci & Corporations convened, Mussolini sitting quietly amid his newly revamped Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 13), and the Count talked for an hour and 53 minutes, mainly about how World War II began and why Italy is jolly well staying...
...much as he criticized the Allies, the Foreign Minister also raised an eyebrow at the Nazis. Mussolini, he said, "was the first to denounce the peril of Bolshevism," and the Count's speech reassured Italians that while Il Duce remains friendly with the Führer, the Rome-Berlin Axis is not going to be extended to Moscow. This was a plain intimation that Italy thought Germany had run out on the Anti-Comintern Pact. Moreover, the Italians were warned of the Russian-German treaty only two days before it was signed. "At 10 o'clock...
...Rome, where any kind of diversion in the Baltic is a welcome respite from Russian pressure on the Balkans, the game was played for all it was worth. Students marched to cheer the Finnish Minister, yelled "Abbasso il Comunismo!" and signed up for service in Finland "if transportation could be found." In other words, one of Germany's allies was now fighting its other ally, just as one of Finland's friends (Germany) was fighting other friends (Great Britain and France) on the Western Front-a situation not too abnormal for 1939 world diplomacy...
...Rome some 300 uniformed Fascist youths, returning from afternoon drill, broke ranks and demonstrated violently in front of the Soviet Embassy. Most Italian papers were cautious in their comments but Il Telegrafo, organ of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, disapprovingly observed, "In the great Nordic plain of the Continent the wolves are having their...
Love triumphed over heretofore implacable Stillman medicos yesterday morning when despite a septic throat Frederick R. Suits IL was permitted to slip out for an hour to marry Miss Barbara Neville Bossinger of Little Rock, Arkansas...