Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoch! Hoch! Hoch!" roared the crowd, while only the royal colors of Bavaria (white & light blue) streamed in the breeze. Impressionable, warmhearted, those jolly South-Germans were on a veritable spree of local patriotism. Prussia, land of shaven polls and square jaws, seemed alien and dis-tant-the Enemy, with its feverish industrialism and its cold, northern Berlin. They were Bavarians, and before them stood their "Rightful King." Was he not even a Hero-King? Certainly he had been a Feldmarschall during the War, and commanded troops which struck fast and far into enemy territory. Suddenly, in a bright emotional...
Even from this, the U. S. correspondents present failed unanimously to sense the approach of a great moment, ignored the super-news interest of a speech by the Dictator not in wild, bombastic vein, but warmly and humanly ruminative over the whole fertile land of his endeavors. The correspondents, plowing their usual rut, cabled in distorted and sensationalized form only what II Duce called the "goad" of his speech. Still worse, the correspondents twisted this until it meant almost the opposite of what Premier Mussolini went...
...mention this here without any intention of starting a polemic. What has happened? The Locar-noist nations arm themselves furiously by land and sea, indeed some of these nations have even dared to speak of the war of doctrine which their democracies should have waged against this irreducible Fascist Italy which is antidemocratic, antiliberal, antisocialist, anti-Masonic [applause...
...mediocre interest for us, but one of the posters they carried bore the following inscription: 'From Trieste to Riga.' It is mad, paradoxical, grotesque, but it is a fact. Therefore the precise, fundamental duty of Fascist Italy is to reach a maximum strength with her armed forces on land, sea and air [repeated, prolonged applause...
...must strengthen our navy; while aviation, in which I believe more than ever, must be on such a large scale and so powerful that the noise of its motors must surpass any other noise, and the area of the wings of our airplanes must obscure the sun from our land. Then between 1935 and 1940, when we shall reach the crucial point in European history, we will be able to make our voice heard, and see at last our rights acknowledged [loud, repeated applause]. This preparation requires some years more...