Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This plea the President further backed up by cabling a personal suggestion to Benito Mussolini that he say a restraining word to Herr Hitler. Mussolini already urged to this by Prime Minister Chamberlain (see p.15), had already talked to Herr Hitler by telephone when Ambassador Phillips in Rome arrived with Mr. Roosevelt's message. Announcement of Hitler's decision to hold the four-power meeting at Munich followed so soon after these two Roosevelt messages that the appearance of cause-&-effect was inevitable...
...minutes. The Führer had received that morning a second appeal for peace from President Roosevelt, an appeal to which the only reply was an anti-Roosevelt tirade delivered that same evening to an audience of 175,000 Germans by No. 3 Nazi Goebbels. The results of the Mussolini-Hitler conversation were flashed to London where they brought the high point of drama in a speech to the House of Commons made by the Prime Minister, while in the gallery Queen Mary wept with emotion and Earl Baldwin watched every move...
With Chamberlain, Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini agreeing in Munich, making a four-power treaty and obviously eager to run Europe, the above comment was significant last week, although written in 1933 by able New York Timesman Edwin L. James apropos of the Pact made at Rome in June of that year by exactly the same Four Powers. Away back before the 1922 March on Rome, Editor Benito Mussolini used to tell his journalistic colleagues in Milan that Europe could find enduring peace only by coming under the responsible dominance of the great powers of the West...
...said afterward that the lengthy speech of Neville Chamberlain seemed to many of them to be trending toward a declaration of war, then suddenly the Prime Minister began to tell how he had sent a personal letter to Il Duce urging him to contact the Führer. This Mussolini did. "In response," said Mr. Chamberlain, "Herr Hitler has agreed to postpone mobilization for twenty-four hours. Whatever views the honorable members have had about Signor Mussolini in the past, I believe every one will welcome his gesture of being willing to work with us for peace in Europe...
...voice of Stentor, the hands are the hands of B. F. Keith. Helhapoppin turns out to be toothless old vaudeville trying to act like a lusty, bellowing babe. From the time the curtain goes up on a cockeyed newsreel in which Hitler talks with a Yiddish accent and Mussolini with a Negro one, Helha-poppin-gagging, hamming, roughhousing all the way-does not miss a trick...