Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guests. Sir Austen Chamberlain arrived from a "vacation" at Rapallo, Italy, where he is rumored to have secretly reached an Anglo-Italian "understanding" with Premier Mussolini...
...forms of government, the dictatorship moves with most speed. And among dictators, Premier Pangalos rivals Mussolini for absoluteness and Mustafa for ingenuity. The Greek ruler's latest bid for fame is based on financial wizardry of a sort Monsieur Caillaux never conceived of. By simple proclamation, so "Time" reports, Pangalos forces every possessor of a bank note with a face value of more than twenty five drachmas to snip an end therefrom. The snipped notes, worth three quarters of the legend printed on them, continue to circulate dolefully while the other quota goes to the "National Forced Loan...
...anyone who knew Italy in the years immediately following the War, the change which came over the country with the advent of Mussolini is little short of miraculous. He did not promise or give advantage to any one class. He called upon and demanded of all classes that they work together for the good of the nation. He is neither a demagog nor a reactionary. He is a patriotic realist...
...Fascism is maintained by violence and ultimately will be met by counter violence, but not while Mussolini retains his power. Liberty is the preservation of minority criticism. This has been eliminated." Many Italians in the Southern Tyrol have Austrian names. Last week King Vittorio Emanuele signed a Cabinet decree ordering all families in the Tyrolese province of Trento to adopt a strictly Italian spelling of their names, even though the offending syllables might have to be completely translated. Il Benito had taken care to see that fines up to 25,000 lire ($1,000) were provided for nonobservance...
While political amateurs bore the world with analyses of Rivera, Mussolini and Pangalos, Mustapha Komal Pasha, magic enchanter who affixed the brim to the fez and drew the vell from the fact of Turkish womankind, goes unheralded and unsung, as if social traditions were not a thousand times more difficult to upset than political dicta...