Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever implemented, give the Reich the right under some circumstances to intervene in Italy. To those who have seen German troops, generals, diplomats and agents pouring into Italy during the last six months the treaty seemed final confirmation of what has long been suspected: That long-independent Dictator Benito Mussolini had finally become the political, economic and military prisoner of the more powerful German Führer...
Europe's three leading Fascist dictators have much in common, yet each has his individuality. Neither Führer Hitler nor Duce Mussolini would have organized the religious services which Catholic Caudillo Franco held next day in the little suburban Church of Santa Barbara. A choir of monks chanted age-old antiphons; 10,000 palms were strewn on the church steps; El Caudillo walked into the church under a white silk canopy held up by six priests. Before the high altar on which was placed a crucifix commemorating the great Hispano-Venetian naval victory at Lepanto in the 16th...
...descended four Papal thrones, accepted two keys to the Lateran, gave his Cardinals special commemorative medals, laid an offering in a crimson velvet, gold-embroidered purse on the high altar. The long rite over, he appeared to the patient crowds on the balcony of the Basilica's portico. Mussolini's Italian guards struck up the papal hymn, the Pope's Palatine guards blared out the Fascist anthem, Giovanezza. The Pope had "taken possession" of his Church of St. John Lateran, "Mother of all churches...
...Pope Pius XI quietly took over St. John's without pageantry after the Lateran Treaty of 1929. More significant than its spectacular pageantry was the political meaning of this "taking possession." To Catholics throughout the world it marked a new militancy in the Vatican, a new deference from Mussolini. In Catholic eyes it was not so much a procession as a triumph...
...light cruiser Nashville was Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, soon to become U. S. Army Chief of Staff. Heading for Brazil from the East on the Italian liner Conte Grande was high-powered, gay, vivacious Countess Edda Ciano, wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, favorite daughter of Benito Mussolini...