Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MUSSOLINI: "The present Parliament can and must function...
...MUSSOLINI: "We have increased the prosperity of the country...
...Fascist regime in Italy. He spoke of what had been accomplished: balanced budgets, reduction of internal indebtedness, prosperous industries, etc., and said that the Government was arranging to redeem $15,000,000 worth of bonds falling due in the U. S. in 1925. Said he: "We-that is, Mussolini and his faithful followers, including the most patriotic elements of Italy-are going to see that this work is carried out to a finish. After all, Fascismo has caused a revolution, a spiritual revolution, and it intends to defend it as every revolution has had to defend itself. Bolshevism...
Which polite and eminently excusable evasion, of course, left Peppino free to decline in turn. The last that was heard of Garibaldi-to-Mussolini-to-Balbo was that the Permanent Court of Honor at Florence would consider the matter of redress for alleged contusion of Peppino's feelings...
Italy is the classic land of dictators. To her long line of emperors and popes, to her commercial titans of Venice and Genoa, to her art masters of Florence and Rome, and to her indomitable Mussolini of contemporary fame, is now added another picker up of the discarded toga of Cincinnatus. All literary Europe is agog over Benedetto Croce who poses, and by many is accepted, as the Doctor Johnson of his day. Scholar, statesman, and philosopher, his most recent work in the field of literary criticism is an astonishing volume upon "European Literature of the Nineteenth Century...