Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tired to his Villa Torlonia home one evening some years ago, Benito Mussolini decided on the spur of the moment to go into a cinema. He entered and took a seat, unrecognized. Presently, his own limber face flashed on the screen. Everyone present stood up and applauded, except Il Duce. His secret enjoyment of the demonstration was interrupted by a man behind him who leaned over and whispered: "Better stand up and clap, pal. They'll arrest...
This incident, which is supposed to have happened early in the days of Il Duce's power, might easily have taken place again last week. Once more the Dictator was alone and tired. Italians still salaamed to his face on screens, his name on walls, but there were certain new mental reservations in their reverence. Foreign journalists in Rome received anonymous letters: "The Italians desire the end of the dictatorship which renders impossible prosperity and peace. Viva Italia! Viva la libert...
...last week the U. S. public had read too many times that Mr. Welles, like some train that leaves the station at some odd minute nobody can remember, had entered Hitler's Chancellery at exactly 11:06 and departed at 12:01, had pulled into the presence of Il Duce at precisely 3:14 and departed at 4:28, had gone off to lunch with Count Ciano at 1:01 and returned to his hotel...
Monday at 9:30 a. m., Il Duce's trim train pulled in at the little mountain village of Brennero, in the famed Brenner Pass, just over the German border in Italy. Forty minutes later the Führer's train arrived in a driving snow storm...
Steel-helmeted Alpine troops carrying bayoneted rifles stood guard while Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano escorted Herren Hitler and Ribbentrop from their train to Il Duce's salon car. A red carpet, flanked by specially provided potted palms pointed...