Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexican tankers, voted to place its 19,500,000 countrymen at the side of 27 other United Nations-at war with the Axis. Recent were the sinkings but hoary, as modern politics go, was the steady flame of anti-Fascist fervor behind that decision. Since Dictator Benito Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia, which she never recognized, on through comradeship with Spanish Loyalist resistance to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Mexico had consistently raised her voice against the Fascist-Nazi powers...
...does inadvertently achieve a curious cumulative impression of famous and infamous faces under the wear & tear of time. Hitler ages visibly from the bedraggled but hard-driving Chancellor (1933) to the double-chinned, snappish war lord (1941). Bombast and ostentatious health fade from Mussolini's naked dome after the debacle in Greece. From the present's point of view, Laval looks untrustworthy from the start. Irony stalks beside Winston Churchill and Admiral Darlan as they review French sailors together. The tread of marching armies forecasts the kind of fight they will make later on-the Germans, thudding, dour...
...Other non-Germans who have received various classes of Order of the German Eagle: Benito Mussolini, General Francisco Franco, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria, Henry Ford, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines. Watson sent his back...
...Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano, it is said, arranged a little stunt to impress U.S. Ambassador William Phillips, who was about to return to Washington to report on Italian conditions. While the Duce was receiving the Ambassador, Count Ciano rushed in with a cooked-up piece of good news: "Duce! Duce! Twenty-eight ships loaded with wheat have just arrived . . . our granaries are simply bursting. Where can we put all this wheat...
...Times confirmed London reports that Frenchmen had not only received the Commandomen as deliverers but had also aided them with arms. The rising rate of Nazi executions fanned the fires. And, as if the demanding voices of the unspeakable Hitler and the porcine Laval were not enough, the buffoon Mussolini joined the chorus, asking, as Italy had asked in the past, for Nice and Corsica...