Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...History seldom offers, in its tragedies, so clear-out a role for the villain of the piece as is now occupied by Mussolini. We westerners dismissed his warlike utterances as mere sabrerattling for mass consumption. We will soon pay for refusing to face the facts." (September...
Competitions in "the good old days" featured initiation. Arthur N. Holcombe, '06, professor of Government, proudly recalls a certain Government 1 peroration delivered while he was being ejected from the rostrum by three CRIMSON nominees dressed as Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin...
Shortly after Dunkirk, as a bright Beaverboy of 27, Mike Foot helped write Guilty Men, an indictment of the Chamberlain government (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). The Beaver pretended not to notice. But when Foot gave the Tories the other barrel in The Trial of Mussolini, Beaverbrook dropped him as editor. Since mid-1944, Foot has done his sharpshooting from his column in the Laborite Daily Herald. ("The central problem of Toryism remains the same: how to get the poor to vote for the rich man's cause...
They were busy and important days for Victor Emmanuel. He read long and complicated reports, reviewed parades, pinned medals on heroes and put wreaths on graves. An American visitor was told in 1927: "The most wonderful thing about Mussolini is his loyalty to his King." The words were spoken by King Victor Emmanuel III; by that time a lot of Italians would have disagreed. When Il Duce declared war against Ethiopia, il piccolo swiftly calculated: "If we win I shall be King of Abyssinia; if we lose, I shall be King of Italy...
...After Mussolini's fall and Italy's capitulation in 1943, it was only a question of time before opportunism would collect its due. But stubbornly the King procrastinated, hoping somehow to hang on to his throne. In 1944, he named his tall (6 ft.) playboy son and Crown Prince, Umberto, as "Lieutenant General of the Realm," subject to the people's will to be expressed by free vote. Victor Emmanuel remained a king in name only...