Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Corfu. On a question involving a major power, the Council of the League was noncommittal. It did not, in the slightest degree, condemn Italy for the Corfu business. (Last September Mussolini bombarded Corfu in retaliation for the assasination of Italian officers in Albania, due, he said, to the negligence of the Greeks. He refused interference by the League. Did he thereby violate the Covenant of the League? The Council of the League, in order to keep Italy's friendship, now says...
Although it is denied that there is any political flavor to the transaction, last week, Mussolini and the Polish Minister to Italy, M. Zalewsi, assisted by Signor Toplitz, manager of the powerful Banco Commerciale Italiana, agreed to a loan whereby Italy lends 400,000,000 lire ($20,000,000 at normal exchange) to Poland. The ceremony had an official character, is considered in some circles to be an "Italian answer" to the recent French loan to Czecho-Slovakia...
...Benito Mussolini, whose diplomatic tenacity consolidated by Treaty from the Yugo-Slavs what the sword and pen of the swashbuckling poet had made the great national ambitioin of the Italians, went the Order of the Annunziata, the highest honor that can be given by the Italian Crown. There are only seven in the order; the recipient is entitled to sit in the Royal presence and to .call the Sovereign "Cousin...
Luis Angel Firpo, heavyweight boxing champ of South America, and Erminio Spalla, heavyweight champ of Europe, decided to have a fight at the Football Stadium in Buenos Aires. Benito Mussolini cabled Spalla: "Keep the Italian colors aloft." Thirty thousand Argentinians went out to see the fight. The fighters hit each other for 13 and a fraction rounds, until finally only Firpo hit Spalla, and Spalla sank by the ropes, and they counted...
Benito issued a decree giving protection to tenants against rent-raising landlords. The landlords protested, declared that the new measure would shake their confidence in Fascismo, discourage construction. Answered Mussolini...