Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a tragic day for thinking Italians and Americans of Italian descent. . . . Mussolini has made a ghastly mistake. What can he hope to gain that will redeem Italy in the eyes of the civilized world? Territory? First-rate standing for Italy? . . . By what fatuous self-hypnotism has he whipped himself and his people into such a false move...
...Second Armistice. From Compiégne the four tired French delegates drove to Munich, where Hitler and Mussolini had agreed to their joint peace terms (TIME. June 24). There they spent the night. Next day German planes carried them to Rome to hear Italy's conditions...
...told that the Italian Navy is coming to gain sea superiority in these waters. If that is seriously intended, I can only say we shall be delighted to offer Mussolini free, safeguarded passage through the Strait of Gibraltar. . . . There is general curiosity in the British Fleet to find out whether the Italians are up to the level they were in the last war or whether they have fallen...
...booms would certainly be disastrous and perhaps, over a period of weeks, big shells could smash away the Rock's friable limestone-of which every splinter becomes a missile when a shell explodes-to expose the defenders' guns to ultimate destruction. If that should happen, Benito Mussolini would escape his Mediterranean cage...
...youngest Marine officer ever to win the rank of brigadier general, fought in 14 battles and skirmishes, earned a legendary reputation for reckless bravery. His barrackroom language got him into more trouble than did his battlefield impetuosity. In 1930 he was almost court-martialed for calling Premier Mussolini a "hit-and-run driver." Retired, General Butler lectured for peace, published a book entitled War Is a Racket, advocated complete U. S. isolation coupled with an ironclad defense a rat couldn't crawl through." He was a Quaker...