Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world has been watching to see what the Fascisti Premier would do to settle the troubled internal condition of Italy. Immediately upon taking office Signor Mussolini plunged into the Italian struggle against bankruptcy by planning a series of public works on a grand scale. Among his schemes, one which will be watched with great interest by Americans is the forming of a Yellowstone Park in the Italian Alps for the protection of the Alpine birds and animals...
...Mussolini took power in a revolution, but his inaugural was orderly and his ministry has been industrious. He has declared hostility to all extreme socialists and repudiated all Soviets. He has pledged himself to balance the budget and appears at his office regularly at 8 o'clock. In his rather defiant speech to the Chamber of Deputies he declared the Black Shirts to be a force "tending toward development, progress, and equilibrium...
...turn, and in her worst despair, from the chaos of industrial strife, class enmity and communistic threats she has evolved a system and a leader, or rather, a leader who has created a system. Now, on the surge of the conquering tide of that system Signor Mussolini has been swept into power and the world has been galvanized by his first official utterance. With complete confidence in his party and in himself he has chosen to honor the king, respect the Senate, but to challenge the Chamber...
...Signor Mussolini may well ask God for help in a most arduous task. He must prove his words the prediction of a new era of statesmanship, not the evanescent promises of a power-intoxicated demagogue. Meanwhile there is no question who is in control. The 300,000 Black Shirts, it is interesting to note, are not inside the walls of the city. More remarkable is the Premier's statement that the government will show its strength against anyone, even against the Fascisti, if they break the laws of the country." Of his party and himself Signor Mussolini appears to have...
...Mussolini was a republican a year ago, but the personal popularity of the king and the interests of Italian Unity have led him to speak for the preservation of the kingdom. Victor Emmanuel himself made it a principle, as he once remarked, so to bring up him son that if the need came, he could be the first President of Italy...