Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eyed, bouncing Bambino Romano Mussolini was born Sept. 27, 1927. At age 14 months he bounced once around Ancient Rome while Fascists roared enthusiastic "Ala-ala-alalas!" (TIME, Dec. 10), in the arms of Papa Benito Mussolini, who bounced in turn upon a large white horse...
...magistrates and grand dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow Wilson in drafting the Covenant of the League of Nations as Italian Foreign Minister (1919-20) ; today, in the 73rd year of his vigorous age, he is the personal and implicitly trusted diplomatic representative of Dictator Benito Mussolini. "Order!" rapped Chairman Vittorio Scialoja, as his judicial forbears have rapped for generations, and around the big U-shaped council table there came to order some 14 statesmen, including Europe's famed "Big Three": Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain); M. Aristide Briand (France); Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany). Almost at once...
...remained for Mussolini to cap the climax. In the Decalogue of the Young Facist there are incorporated ten commandments that almost reach the magnitude of a Napoleonic gesture. The purpose of these ten requirements is to train good Italians to be good Facists, and if these rules are obeyed, II Duce will have succeeded in resembling Napoleon to an even more gratifying degree. Anticipating some of the difficulties that might arise from the rather unusual sternness of the pronouncement, the Italian youth are not to object to being confined to prison, for the Dictator assures them that any such punishment...
...very soon appeared that this informal group was the inner banking circle of the committee-for with Mr. Morgan and Lord Revelstoke sit Dr. Carl Melchior, partner in Germany's great house of Warburg, Belgian Tycoon Emile Francqui, and Economist Antonio Suvitch, personal representative of Benito Mussolini...
...unusual feature of this arrangement is that Mussolini seems to be willing to let such considerable power escape from his dictatorial control and fall into the hands of a late antagonistic faction. It is especially striking in view of the fact that he has expended so much effort in bringing Italy under the absolute control of the civil government. He takes no consideration of the fact that in a few years the Italian nation will consist of those persons whose education he is now entrusting to an institution that by its very nature can not be anything but reactionary...