Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacked joint British-U. S. hopes: "They say Italy will fall away. . . . They have viewed German-Italian relations ac cording to their own standards. When one democracy helps another it demands some thing - military bases or something that it then retains. ... Il Duce and I are neither Jews nor opportunists. When we shake hands it is the handshake of men of honor...
...international press of violent disaffection in Milan, Turin, Trieste, other crowded cities of the industrial North. Emanating mostly from Belgrade, the reports claimed that three unnamed Italian generals had been assassinated, Trieste women had rioted in a breadline, Lloyd Triestino shipyard workers had struck and angrily burlesqued Il Duce, a mob with knives and pistols had attacked Nazi officers in Milan...
...March 12, 1937, Benito Mussolini paused in his tour of Libya at the port of Derna. Set on the edge of a cluster of green hills, rich in water and soil, this little town had come to be called the Pearl of Cyrenaica. A famous local story which Il Duce asked to hear in full was that of William Eaton and Presley O'Bannon. In 1804 the U. S. was very annoyed with the Barbary pirates, who kept nibbling at U. S. trade in the Mediterranean. William Eaton, a Connecticut schoolteacher, and Presley O'Bannon, a lady-loving...
...troops took from the Louvre in Paris. It now stands in the Berlin office of Adolf Hitler and on the Dictator's greeting card is shown with a flight of German bombers and fighter aircraft. Instead of ''Merry Christmas" the card reads "Our Winged Victory," Recipients: Il Duce, El Caudillo, Rumania's Antonescu...
...group of nineteen students "acting as individuals" has been organized to obtain the necessary signatures. Among them are Charles O. Porter IL, Freshmen Roger L. Putnam, Jr. and Parker D. Wyman, Judith Friedberg of Radcliffe, and William P. Bundy IL, president of the Committee...