Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as Don Ramon prepared to leave Rome for Madrid, it was announced that he and Il Duce had discussed plans for an Arab revolt to be fomented by Spain and guided by Mussolini under his title of Defender of Islam. This was nonsense. Spaniards and Moslems have been enemies since the 8th Century. The talk about an Arab revolt was designed either to cover a real Axis plan involving Spain or to conceal the failure of the Axis and El Cunadissimo to sell Brother-in-Law Franco...
...Balkans, Hitler would have a different military problem. No Balkan State has an army which could offer serious opposition to Mussolini or Stalin, much less Hitler. Two Balkan States, Hungary and Rumania, are already largely under Germany's thumb. But if Russia (already on excellent terms with Bulgaria) or some other power should take a hand in the Balkans, Hitler might have pressing reasons for intervening. Moreover, if Hitler is to pick up some of the French, Dutch and British possessions in the Far East his route in that direction leads through Istanbul and Bagdad. That also...
...Stalin to have Turkey, a secondary power, control the Bosporus is bad enough, but to have one of his rival dictators, Hitler or Mussolini, dominate the Straits would place him in an economic strait jacket. With them around, his chance of getting it for himself is small but he has every reason for cooperating with Turkey and Bulgaria to keep his rivals out, chiefly by lending the use of his Black Sea Fleet based on Nikolaev and Sevastopol. If Hitler and Mussolini are seriously weakened so that he does not have to fear war with them, he might well attempt...
...Mussolini's Problem. With Hitler already in a political and military position to dominate the plain of Hungary and Stalin in possession of the Ukraine, Benito Mussolini can hardly pretend to be one of the big three dictators unless he controls at least a part of Europe's granary. Furthermore, Italy has not adequate food supplies at home and has for years depended on maize from Hungary to help feed her people...
...dictators may be friends but their deals are of a kind the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission would approve-at arm's length. Not only because of Hitler's stronger army did Mussolini have to yield dominance of the Hungarian Plain to Germany. The Dinaric Alps which cut off that plain from the Adriatic Sea and Mussolini are not the highest mountains in Europe but some of the most rugged and impassable. The Pindus Mountains in Albania and northern Greece are considerably higher (they include Mt. Olympus, 9,730 ft., with Ossa and Pelion handy for climbing...