Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benito Mussolini, Premier, is said to be so anxious to resume normal diplomatic relations with the Turks that he will ask the King to ratify the Lausanne Treaty, thereby putting an end to the technical state of war with Turkey which has existed since 1915. Parliament, when it meets next November, will be required to approve the Treaty. After ratification by Royal Decree the Italian High Commissioner of Constantinople will be recalled and replaced by an Ambassador...
...Girondist Party is composed of Socialists and was founded by the Socialist Deputies Alessandri and Bianchi to cooperate with the Fascist Party. Thus has Mussolini triumphed over his late colleagues by causing a rift in their ranks...
...Mussolini believes that he made his way from a village workman to Prime Minister by years of intensive study of history and philosophy. The result of that belief is a return to classicism in Italy. Children of eleven study Latin in the public schools. Character, intellectual ability and artistic taste, rather than what is believed to be the American ideal of power to make money, are the objectives. Ancient Greece and Rome are the means...
Ever since Mussolini seized power, Gabriele d'Annunzio has been engaged in a canny campaign to entrench his own popularity with the working classes, which were disgruntled by the brusque labor policy of the black shirted Dictator...
...words a year, or five times the volume of any existing Western Union cable. Present communication with Italy is relayed by land lines through England and France. The Western Union chose Italy for the destination of its largest cable because of " the growing prosperity of Italy under Mussolini...