Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt merely replied that he was quoting the press back at the newsmen. The implication that Hitler and Mussolini wanted him out-first advanced by Henry Wallace, offered last week by Governor Lehman-now had more than tacit sanction of the President himself. Wallace had been reproved by many people and Lehman's repetition by still more (said Oswald Garrison Villard, "It seems to me that your declaration that a vote for Willkie will be a vote for Hitler . . . touches the low-water mark of unfair, unjust and intolerable partisanship . . . playing upon passions and prejudices which you ought...
Said the New York Times: "We are under no illusion that Hitler and Mussolini like Mr. Roosevelt. We are under no illusion that they will like Mr. Willkie any better, in case he is elected, for Mr. Willkie is just as vigorously pro-America, and just as bitterly anti-Axis, as Mr. Roosevelt, and it is entirely possible that, by preventing economic disintegration in the United States and assuring a more rapid production of airplanes and other war supplies, both for the United States and England, he would give the Axis even more to worry about...
...proud conveyance of Drake, Nelson, Jellicoe. They were sure that Britain could not be brought to her knees until her Fleet was put out of action. And they were also sure that Adolf Hitler, who was mighty sick the first time he ever went to sea, and Benito Mussolini, who looks his most imposing pitching hay, were not the men to turn that trick on any body of water...
ROME--Sharp warnings to Jugoslavia to swing into line with the Rome-Berlin Axis were issued today as Premier Benito Mussolini watched his troops stage a sham battle with Jive shells close to the Jugoslav frontier...
Yesterday the mouthpiece newspaper of Benito Mussolini, Popolo d'Italia, came out with what might be termed a one-for-you-two-for-me proposal. This organ of the Axis stated that if the United States declared war on Japan, the war machines of Germany and Italy would be pointed our way. The paper suggested that we should grab off a few countries, or possessions of other countries, instead of meddling in the affairs of poor old Japan, who is only looking out for her people by taking over a few small islands in the Pacific and all of China...