Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general batting average had taken an extraordinary drop from 63.5% of popular approval to 58.8%, that whereas in March 36.9% of the population felt like voting for him in 1940 if he ran, now only 33.2% felt like it. But this survey was compiled before the Hitler-Mussolini peace message...
Franklin Roosevelt experienced the satisfaction last week of one who, having raised his voice above those of angry disputants, hears them hush, sees their blows momentarily arrested. All American nations last week murmured admiring endorsements of his message the week-end previous to A. Hitler & B. Mussolini (TIME, April 24). Several European nations which would benefit from the ten-year peace pledge he proposed, offered grateful applause. Hitler reserved his reply for this week, only Mussolini jeered in a sarcastic rejoinder...
...that 40 billion dollar debt. . . . You people out there look to Washington, but I look to the people. If the time ever comes when the American people are no longer able to operate their democratic system of government, that government will have to find a Hitler or a Mussolini to do its business...
Germany's fleet plowed past the cliffs of Dover (see p. 23), Benito Mussolini called Franklin Roosevelt a Messianic meddler and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a convivial vociferator* (see p. 26), but still there was no actual fighting in Europe last week. Meanwhile the U. S. people continued the process of making up their collective mind about War (how to provide against its coming) and Peace (how to preserve it). The process consisted, as it must in a democracy, of sound-offs hither & yon, pro & con. Most notable...
Unhappy over his lot because of all these things, Vittorio Emmanuele III has several times been rumored on the point of abdication. Last week correspondents learned that when the mild little King heard of Premier Mussolini's plans to invade Albania, he sent Crown Prince Umberto to call on His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, not once but twice. One interview lasted 45 minutes. Its burden: Rome and Berlin having been politically hyphenated while the King was on the throne, there was nothing he personally could do about splitting the combination; but perhaps if he abdicated in favor...