Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italy's industry is now permeated with syndicalism, and what a paradox it is that such a centrifugal force should be fostered in a country whose theory of government is so intensely nationalistic! It is certainly to Mussolini's credit that he is able to keep an economic plan which makes for individualism running in harmony with a theory of government that is rigidly centered in one figure...
Among the objects of humor which Mr. Herbert finds to be afflicted with this touchiness are domestic servants, policemen, civil servants. Americans, Mussolini, clergymen and plumbers. To which the Lampoon, no doubt, would add Princetonian and the House Planners. But nobody's touchiness will be outraged by the current Lampoon. It is a monstrous fat book, the fattest in all Lampoon history, and it is a parody of that strangely sportive new child of Boston. The Sportsman...
Eighteen months have passed since virtually every Government in the world received officially a copy of the plan outlined above. However, when the delegates were asked their opinions, last week, they nearly all sat silent. After a considerable pause General Alberto de Marinis, representing Signer Benito Mussolini, expressed approval for the first point of the plan only. "We stand ready to reduce our armaments," he said, "to any figure, even the lowest, provided all other nations do the same...
Like soldiers, like ramrods, members of the newly elected 100% Fascist Parliament stood at attention before King Vittorio Emanuele III in the Chamber of Deputies last week, waiting to take their oaths of office. Each deputy was resplendent in dress suit and white gloves. "Gentlemen!" boomed Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, "His Majesty the King invites you to be seated!" They sat. He read the oath of office. He began to call the roll. Like clockwork, as each name was barked, a white-gloved hand shot up in the Fascist salute, and the deputy in question shouted "Giuro!" ("I swear!"). Straight...
...situation is far worse in Italy. There all the correspondents bootlick Prime Minister Mussolini or are thrown out. In Spain the censorship of Dictator Primo de Rivera is theoretically absolute, but the indolent Spanish temperament allows correspondents to smuggle out pretty much what they please...