Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stubborn correspondents have insisted, for some months, that the "Roman Question" would be solved during 1928. In imagination they have fairly hustled the "Prisoner of the Vatican" out of his retirement and into a concordat with his erstwhile "Jailers," King Vittorio Emanuele and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Rumors to this effect were cabled last month, in extenso, even by respected Salvatore Cortesi, who has served the Associated Press in Rome for 25 years. Meanwhile observers of poised judgment could only point out (TIME, Feb. 13) certain sufficient indications that no such happy event was germinating. They quoted, for example...
...immediate reply of Signor Mussolini to this frontal attack was a speech to his Cabinet Council in which he said that "If the State does not accept . . . the duty ... of integral preparation of future citizens ... it purely and simply gambles away its right to existence...
...decisive mind. Necessarily the titans of newspaperdom have been dictators-James Gordon Bennett, Joseph Pulitzer, Viscount Northcliffe. These men had no time, in business moments, for Democracy or its delays. They are dead, but their dynamic Shades must have approved, last week, when that trampler upon Democracy, Signor Benito Mussolini,* was impetuously championed in the London Daily Mail by its owner, Lord Rothermere, brother and successor to the late Lord Northcliffe...
...These emphatic words, spoken to me by Signor Mussolini during my visit here, deserve the attention of the public...
...been realized. And therein lies an analogy, or at worst a similarity. If education makes it possible for these foreign students to speak comprehensible English, it has one point in favor of its finally producing the mutual understanding among peoples, so long desired, so slow to come. Not that Mussolini's sword-shaking is a symptom of insufficient linguistic knowledge; still, be never had the opportunity afforded by model assemblies of the League of Nations. All in all, there are possibilities in this sort of meeting. There is one great defect, however; the model assemblies can offer no model Alps...