Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved by the Fascist Government," was the gloating comment, last week, of Il Tevere and other Fascist news organs, when Signor Benito Mussolini caused to be revealed in Rome that a new Italo-Albanian treaty had been signed two days previously in the Albanian capital, Tirana...
...lies in the fact that Italians were becoming anxious, last fortnight, over the signing of an accord between France and Jugoslavia in mid-November. If so great a Power as France was throwing her prestige upon the side of Italy's potential enemy, Jugoslavia, then it behooved Signor Mussolini to trumpet that Italy is unafraid and not unbefriended...
...treaty signed last week accomplished all requisite trumpeting. It dressed up the well-known dependence of Albania upon Italy in the guise of an "unalterable defensive alliance" between sovereign states. With this counterblast against the Franco-Jugoslav treaty, Signor Mussolini perhaps dazzled and reassured some impressionable Italians. The feelings of non-Italians were well echoed by the Journal des Debats of Paris which called the treaty "a gesture of bad humor...
...Padua three Jugoslav students "asked for it" by loudly and arrogantly singing a Jugoslav anthem, to which, it was alleged, they somewhat foolishly added insults to Italy, Fascism, Mussolini, always a dangerous procedure in Italy these days. Only the prompt intervention of the police saved these foolhardy youths from a fate that would not have stopped short of cudgelings and castor...
Nevertheless, it was mooted that Signer Mussolini would have something to say on the Franco-Jugoslav treaty when Parliament convenes next month, and that something, all conceded, would be quite up to Il Duce's usual pyrotechnical verbiage...