Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italy might intervene under her new treaty with Albania (TIME, Dec. 13) for vengeance. Through the crooked, cobbled, time-stained streets Fear stalked last week, with the numbing rumor that he who fired the first shot was an Italian agent provocateur. Why not? A few more such incidents, and Il Duce can mature his reputed scheme to seize Albania under pretext of "intervention to maintain Albanian sovereignty...
...finds himself forever unable to set foot on the earth of Italy. This self-marooning followed an altercation some 60 years ago between the Church and the State in which the State did not lose. But last week Hope peeked over the Vatican walls and winked at his holiness. Il Papa was to emancipate himself with an airplane, despatches from the Eternal City hinted. In this way he was able to avoid the technical foot-touching of Italy...
Deputies elected to the Dáil Eireann (Irish Free State Chamber of Deputies) by the Irish Republicans or Sinn Feiners* have heretofore abstained from taking their seats, as a protest backing up their claim (TIME, Nov. 22) that "The Irish Free State is not Irish, is not free and is not a state...
...bold type a manifesto blazoned at Rome by the Royalist Montenegrin Committee for National Defense. The Committee, a dwindling palace clique, called upon Montenegrins to rise against Jugoslavia* and restore King (Pretender) Michael of Montenegro. The Jugoslav press, just now hypersensitive to Italian war scares, grew promptly flurried lest Il Duce follow up his Albanian treaty thrust into the Balkans (TIME, Dec. 13) by trying to restore the independence and throne of Montenegro...
Thus spoke Benito Mussolini in 1923, a few months after he seized power. Today the tone of his speeches, at least for foreign consumption is vastly different. Last week, when a correspondent asked, "Are personal Liberty and Fascismo compatible?" Il Duce replied: "The conception of liberty is not absolute because there is no conception that can be absolute. Fascismo is opposed to excessive individualism. It is not opposed to individualism. On the contrary, we believe in variety, differentiation, the essential inequality of man. The 18th and 19th Centuries experimented with democracy. In the 20th Century democracy should reach its maturity...