Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thus Il Duce weaseled in a reminder that Italians Sacco & Vanzetti were executed despite protests from almost every European nation. That Italy would follow in the independent lead of the U. S. in administering her internal affairs was his clear & clever implication...
Next day, two leading Viennese newspapers sounded the irrepressible retort of small Austria. The conservative Neues Wiener Tageblatt rapped: "The arguments of Il Duce are the arguments of the strong, but not strong arguments." The liberal Neue Freie Presse exclaimed rhetorically: "Your words, Signor Mussolini, can only mean that you consider yourself strong and us weak. . . . Then why refuse us the only right which the weak have-namely, the right to complain...
Generally the speech of Il Duce was deemed "mild" in Austria where public opinion had been most uneasy...
...friend of Signor Benito Mussolini dating from before his rise to power is the learned Jesuit scholar, Father Tacchi-Venturi of Rome. He persuaded Il Duce some years ago to present a State collection of ancient religious books to the Vatican. Generally it is known that Father Tacchi-Venturi has since been the chief intermediary between his Great & Good Friend and Pope Pius XI in recent attempts to negotiate a settlement of the Roman Question (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week a paper knife entered the flesh of Jesuit Tacchi-Venturi amid dramatic circumstances...
Some few moments later a limousine with bullet-proof glass windows stops at the door. Up the stair stalks Il Duce. He enters the presence of the dead, alone. Like a soldier, like a ramrod, he stands at attention beside the bier. Minutes pass. No tears, no prayers, no rattling of beads. At last Signor Mussolini salutes the dead and strides away...