Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator-Premier Carlos Ibanez, bantam Mussolini, bestirred himself with more than wonted vigor throughout the week...
...amazing, significant, that at Locarno, with Belgium's whole fate supposedly depending on the signing of the Pact, Foreign Minister Vandervelde was obliged to refuse to shake hands with Premier Mussolini. His Belgian Socialist constituents forbade him to take the hand that they considered had oppressed and murdered Italian Socialists. Aside from this incident?hushed up of course?M. Vandervelde furthered Locarno with his uttermost efforts...
During December rumors too vague to be set in type began to filter from Italy that a plot to dethrone the King and proclaim Signer Mussolini Emperor had almost succeeded...
...concensus of reports to date: 1) During November, Undersecretary for Aviation Italo Balbo and General Emilio De Bono, Governor of Tripolitania, perfected the details of the plot. (They with Signer Mussolini led the famed march on Rome [1922] which brought Fascismo into power.) 2) A letter from General De Bono to Secretary Balbo concerning the plot fell into the hands of General Pietro Badoglio, the Army Chief of Staff, and a staunch, loyal monarchist. 3) General Badoglio promptly called a cavalry regiment and two artillery regiments to Rome, ordered them to guard King Vittorio Emanuele and the royal family...
...Bureau of the Socialist and Labor International in Zurich, Switzerland, enumerated last week the names of 15 Italian Deputies of the Opposition whom Premier Mussolini is alleged to have ordered and sent into exile on the barren islands off the coast of Sicily. The Bureau, which made these charges in a dispassionate report, alleges that over 1,000 antiFascists are in political exile on these Islands, imprisoned in company with common criminals, insufficiently nourished...