Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of this was about Tunisia, where the population is 2,400,000 natives, 94,000 Italians and 108,000 French. Mussolini promised to agitate no more over Tunisia. The gist of what Laval promised Mussolini about Tunisia was that certain special rights enjoyed by Italians for many years in this French protectorate, will be guaranteed at least until 1965. As soon as the Cabinet of Premier Leon ("French New Deal") Blum was formed, Italians began receiving ever stronger impressions that these rights would be taken away...
...nose-counting, or race is the standard of justice, then Italy has almost as good a claim as France. That Italy would like to press that claim was evident last week when Count Ciano told the French Ambassador that as far as Italy was concerned the 1935 Laval-Mussolini agreement was dead...
Whatever stir Dictator Mussolini thought was going to result from this latest of dictator-manufactured crises, French citizenry in Tunisia and Corsica and French officialdom in Paris responded by getting good and mad. In Tunis an angry mob, forming spontaneously, serpentined through the narrow streets shouting "Down with Italy!" and "Long Live France!" Forcing stray Italians caught in the crowd to remove their Fascist insignia, the paraders wrecked an Italian bookstore, flinging newspapers and books into the streets, raided the offices of the Italian Line, broke into the plant of the Italian newsorgan Fascista Unione. Reinforced police squads narrowly prevented...
...Squilla (The Scream) was an Italian Socialist newspaper directed by Roberto Farinacci before the War, but after he gave up his original profession as a railway station "baggage-smasher" and stationmaster. After the War, he and a certain Mussolini were known as two of the several "Fathers of Fascism." Of the five Secretaries-General which the Party has had (1923-38), Farinacci was the second (1924-26). He was kicked out after getting mixed up in the Cremona bank scandals, resumed editorship in Cremona of his newspaper Il Regime Fascista (The Fascist Regime...
...Mussolini took him back, made him a Grand Councilor in 1935. Next year, Farinacci lost his right hand in the Ethiopian war, in 1937 went to Spain as liaison between Mussolini and Franco, boasts: "I unified the Spanish Fascist Falange Party machine!" Like Hitler, passionately fond of music and indifferent to women, No. 1 Italian Jew-Baiter Farinacci attended the pre-Czecho-slovak Crisis session of the Nürnberg Nazi Party Congress as head of the Italian Delegation...