Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addressing King Vittorio Emmanuele, Mr. Roosevelt avoided the cold shoulder Benito Mussolini gave him last April, played for the hold the Italian Crown has upon the Italian People. He urged again the international discussions, military and economic, which he had proposed before. He added this note, which chimed with the Pope's plea: "The Government of Italy and the United States can today advance those ideals of Christianity which of late seem so often to have been obscured" (in Germany and Russia...
...audacious and careful. Although he screamed on schedule at the French, British and Polish Ambassadors respectively, nevertheless uncertainty, postponements, reversals, entered Germany's history: a speech at Tannenberg was reannounced, then canceled; the Nurnberg Congress of Peace was reannounced, canceled. At the other end of the Axis Benito Mussolini seemed dawdling or lethargic compared with his hyperthyroid partner in Berlin. He seemed pensive compared with the democratic statesmen of Paris and London; no omens came from the Capitol...
...British-French preparations. Parliament assembled smoothly and gravely. War powers went to the Government without recrimination, without distrust. Whatever arguments developed behind the scenes over policy and timing, flawless diplomatic coordination between France and Great Britain stood out in sharp contrast to the enigmatic relationship of Hitler and Mussolini, stood out even more sharply in contrast to the suddenly interrupted friendship of Berlin and Tokyo...
Adolf Hitler was once a friend of the masses; so was Benito Mussolini. But they were sandlot revolutionaries beside the "hall sweeper" of the red revolution, the tough from the Caucasus, Joseph Stalin. Once Joe Stalin was proud of his exploits, proud of the way he darted into Armenian stores, stole what he wanted, fired some shots and ran, leaving men puking blood behind him; proud of the holdup of Tiflis -20 dead; proud of having the guts to toss bombs from a lamppost at fully armed Cossacks; proud of the holdups on mountain roads; proud of inflaming the doubters...
...peace tower played, with his assistant Robert Donnell, selections from Wagner, favorite composer of Adolf Hitler. They were practicing for this week's Carilloneurs' Congress in Manhattan. At week's end, Prime Minister King emulated Franklin Roosevelt, sent personal peace pleas to A. Hitler, B. Mussolini, I. Moscicki...