Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norway's gaunt Haakon VII was a king with less than half a country last week as Nazi Blitzkriegers stormed through his realm and shot up his peace-loving subjects and their stumbling allies (see p. 22). Rome's Il Messaggero hopefully reported that he was about to board a British cruiser to seek security in England...
...Italy's highest-ranking officers, Marshal Enrico Caviglia, chose this critical moment to give Il Duce and his undernourished country some sound advice. In a sensational preface to a book, Totalitarian Warfare and Its Conduct, he declared: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary. In his calculations the military forces will not have the primary place, but rather the economic and financial forces." If Italian cinemagoers, stockbrokers and generals were uncomfortable about...
...Ansaldo, said: "No people in Europe can isolate itself from conflict." Italy, Mouthpiece Ansaldo went on, has been preparing herself "for the occasion and the moment which will be most opportune for it. This occasion and this moment . . . may be much nearer than is believed." Only six days earlier Il Duce had cried at Orvieto: "Whatever may be the happenings which this late spring brings us, Italy will face them...
...Il Duce carries his 56 years with desperate virility. Every morning before going to work he takes a fierce ride in the grounds of Villa Torlonia. Every afternoon between 2 and 3 he plays tennis with a professional who gets $50 a month...
Roman electricians say they have been busy lately connecting private telephone wires between Government offices and the apartments of certain blonde ladies-so that no matter what or where his exercise, Il Duce can get last-minute bulletins on the international situation and issue instant orders...