Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungary out of the League of Nations and joined the New Order triumvirate as the first outside power. "I have formal assurance," he declared, "that Germany does not intend to attack either Rumania or anyone else." A few months later he was in Rome pleading with Mussolini to dissuade Hitler from occupying Hungary. War brought him wholly into the Axis camp. His reward: a slice of Rumania...
...fizzled last summer, may look like a horrible risk for the attackers now. But Britain expects it. A lull in air attacks last week, which in London lasted seven whole days, did not decrease British vigilance. The ticking of hours-lengthening the span of days after the last Hitler-Mussolini meeting, shortening the span until fairer weather-increased it. The British expected to beat off invasion even at the cost of one half of the Royal Air Force, three quarters of the home battle fleet, 250,000 young units of man power...
...Italians to cease firing, greeted the attackers in the principal square: "Welcome, pals! Come right in-the town's yours." An Aussie soldier hauled down the Italian flag and hauled up his broad-brimmed hat in its place. Another changed the name of the main street from Via Mussolini to Via Ned Kelly-after a famous bush bandit from New South Wales who in his raids on towns defied death by dressing in 97 pounds of iron armor...
Flag Over Dérna. On March 12, 1937, Benito Mussolini paused in his tour of Libya at the port of Derna. Set on the edge of a cluster of green hills, rich in water and soil, this little town had come to be called the Pearl of Cyrenaica. A famous local story which Il Duce asked to hear in full was that of William Eaton and Presley O'Bannon. In 1804 the U. S. was very annoyed with the Barbary pirates, who kept nibbling at U. S. trade in the Mediterranean. William Eaton, a Connecticut schoolteacher, and Presley...
...heard this tale, Benito Mussolini had no idea that any flag but the Italian would be raised over Derna in his lifetime. He proceeded to subsidize Italian farmers to colonize the place. But last week British advance units swept on from Tobruch, 95 miles to the outskirts of Derna. They found the place practically undefended. The farmers and most of the town's population of 21,500 had been evacuated. The main body of the Italian Army had moved on toward Bengasi. It looked as if the place was British for the asking...