Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Luther, "Stresemann, "Emile Vandervelde, "A. Briand, "Austen Chamberlain, "Benito Mussolini...
...Rome there had been farewells pregnant with import and seasoned with emotion. Count Volpi was closeted secretly with Benito Mussolini just before his departure. And the whole Cabinet except Mussolini, assembled at the station to see him off. There was kissing. There were cries of "Viva Volpi! Viva Italia...
Cried Il Popolo d'ltalia, official organ of Premier Mussolini, scoring M. Vanderyelde, Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, for refusing to shake hands with Dictator Benito, at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 26): "Vandervelde is a hooligan in diplomacy ... a Social Democrat who fouts the established canons of diplomatic courtesy, which are scrupulously observed by even the Russian Bolsheviki. . . . Fortunately Emile Vandervelde is an insignificant person. . . . [But] the Locarno episode will not be forgotten...
Allow me to say a few words in answer to an article which appeared in the editorial column of Wednesday's CRIMSON under the title of "Duces Wild". This article was probably intended to throw ridicule at Mussolini, but unfortunately the author has descended to such a depth of calumnious utterances that instead of provoking mirth, his words bring only disgust to the reader. The disparagement of great men is a pastime indulged in by the intellectuals of every country, when it is done with due regard to decency of speech, but when such a diversion goes beyond all limits...
...this irreverent age of the insubordinate younger generation, the heroic example of one Edda, daughter of Mussolini who would not stir her little toe without her father's consent, smells sweeter than garlic in this naughty world. To complete the incident of her temptation, picture now one Hispano-Suiza whining to be thrown into high gear, an overpoweringly handsome member of the Black Hand or perhaps the Black Shirt Club, and a glorious Italian moon, that is as glorious a moon as moons in Italy may be. But Edda was not seduced by the promise of a wild ride behind...