Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Benito Mussolini is piqued, so is the whole Italian press. Last week Il Duce's annoyance at the good show Democracy was putting on in Paris caused many Italian papers to omit accounts of the British royal visit, provoked one to attribute this apocryphal quote to Queen Elizabeth: "I haven't seen anything but the horses of our guards...
...make a face-saving announcement that Italy and Hungary now constitute a bipod as faithful as ever to the Fascist cooperative spirit, and for this purpose to Rome last week went Hungary's economic strongman, Banker-Premier Béla Imrédy, who had never before met Mussolini...
...agitated, unkempt, timid man with bitter eyes and a large jaw, who twisted his hat nervously. Angelica was so disturbed that after the meeting she spoke to him. He was sick, starving, and had fled Italy to escape military service. Angelica volunteered to help him, asked his name. "Benito Mussolini." he replied...
Reasons for the swelling anti-Semitism in Italy are obvious: 1) the firming friendship with Nazi Germany; 2) the suspicion in the mind of Sig. Mussolini that rich Jews have been skimping recently on their contributions to the Empire; 3) Sig. Mussolini's opposition to Freemasonry. Bolshevism, speculation in foreign exchange, in all three of which he suspects Jews of being active; 4) his fear that a Jewish national home in Palestine (see p. 18) would make the Mediterranean less Roman. He would like to solve the Zionist question by transferring the Zionists from Palestine to Ethiopia. Then...
Pope Pius XI, since the Lateran Treaties of 1929, has been on good terms with Benito Mussolini. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has almost never spoken openly against the Government. Last week, however, it spoke sharply against antiSemitism: "Toward the Israelites we are not only extremely anti-Christian and anti-civil but inhuman. . . . Propaganda against Jews assumes, wherever it is organized and led, proportions unworthy of 20 centuries of Christian civilization!" That, at a time when semi-official Government newspapers had been indulging in anti-Semitic propaganda, was strong talk...