Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pass, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met there again. The snow would soon begin to creep down the slopes of the Wolfendorn and Sattelberg, but that day a bright sun shone on the flower-and-flag-strewn station, made dust specks dance above the red carpets that led from Il Duce's luxurious parlor car to the Führer's austere private coach. At 11 a.m. Signor Mussolini, who had been reviewing a regiment of 6-foot Sicilians, walked to Herr Hitler's car and welcomed his ally to Italy. The fat little Italian...
...went to Paris. There everybody's morale was fine. Everybody said: "Il faut en finir"-"This time we must put an end to it." "So many Frenchmen said: 'Anyone can see that if Hitler doesn't attack now, at the peak of his strength, he's doomed.' And when you asked: 'Then why doesn't he attack now?' they replied, with vast Gallic shrugs, 'Undoubtedly because he knows he's doomed anyway.' So, the stalemate on the western front was widely explained as 'Hitler's realization...
...same time Il Duce's newspapers recalled that Italy had been ejected from Corfu by the League of Nations, that Macedonia had once been a part of the Roman Empire, that the Dalmatian Coast of Yugoslavia had once belonged to the Republic of Venice. Il Duce's probable objective: to force Greece's Premier-Dictator John Metaxas and Yugoslavia's Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch to go to Rome for an "Italian Salzburg," at which Albania (as nominee for Italy) would get Dalmatia and at least a part of Epirus, Bulgaria would get a corridor to the Aegean...
Third strike and out on Mr. Taylor-the Catholic Church's tacit participation in the spoils of Fascist victory-last week became a distinct possibility. To Il Duce went a telegram from 30 Italian Bishops, urging him to crown "the unfailing victory of our Army" by planting the Italian flag over Jerusalem. In England, the Manchester Guardian reported that the Axis powers plan to turn Palestine over to the jurisdiction of the Vatican and transport Palestine's Jewish population to Ethiopia...
Personally piloting a heavy bomber last week on "an official mission," accompanied by the Consul General of Tripoli, the editor of Il Corriere Padano (Balbo's newspaper), a Balbo nephew and a brother-in-law, Marshal Balbo was suddenly attacked by machine-gun fire over Tobruch, Italy's coastal base near the Libya-Egypt border. High in the bright blue African sky his crew of three returned the fire. Holes were sewn down the fuselage of their ship and it caught fire. Down it slid, trailing black oil smoke. It crashed, killing all occupants including the 44-year...