Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that to his face.' . . . Only a man with superb indifference to truth and the realities can assert that the Americans who fell in France did not die in vain. ... In eleven European countries despots wipe their feet upon the prostrate bodies of Liberty and Democracy, though none but Mussolini dares to avow it and to boast of profaning the twin goddesses in be half of whom Woodrow Wilson summoned this country...
Such were the self-revealing remarks of Premier Benito Mussolini last week to a Swiss correspondent who referred by chance, in Il Duce's presence, to the famed mutton chop whiskers of German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz...
Once roused, Signer Mussolini continued volubly: "I will never tolerate civil officials or military officers with long* beards or whiskers. It is said that all wise men and saints of old wore flowing whiskers; but in the end they were cast into prisons or driven to live in caves. . . . You cannot show me one man who became world-great while wearing long whiskers. It is impossible...
Questioned about his projected legislation to enforce morality (TIME, April 4), Signer Mussolini replied last week with extreme candor: "I myself reached my supreme goal after having passed through the stern discipline of life. ... I drank, I made love, I danced, I incited people. ... I did all these things with fury and energy. . . . With this complete knowledge of life I consider that Destiny has appointed me to purify the Soul of Italy...
...other Protestants, inherited prejudice against the Catholic Church. I am thankful to say that that feeling of intolerance no longer exists with me. It has no place in the United States. I dare say that the Pope will be kept busy enough during the next four years dealing with Mussolini and conditions in Mexico without paying attention to what is going on in politics in the United States. He wouldn't have time to give us any attention, even should he want...