Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presidential train raced south through the rich red -amp; green foothills of Virginia. Inside, President Roosevelt made the last few changes in the speech of a day that sped into history. One hour before his train left Washington, Benito Mussolini declared war on Great Britain and France...
...resold to the Allies, were flown at once to Buffalo, en route to Canada; by the same device he had made available more than 500,000 Lee-Enfield rifles, machine guns, ammunition, 755. But the great strain of the week had been his last-minute efforts to prevent Mussolini's attack. He smiled and waved when the crowd at the Charlottesville station hailed his arrival. Then, through the streets of quiet Charlottesville, he drove to the Memorial Gymnasium of the University of Virginia, to don his cap amp; gown and face the graduating class to deliver his speech...
...applause in its condemnation of the dictatorial way of life-the way of force, of "deliberate contempt" of moral values, of treachery and double-dealing, the way that had come to its great climax in the assassin lunge of Italy upon stricken France. Three months ago, said the President, Mussolini had sent him word that Italy was determined to prevent the spread of war to the Mediterranean. The U. S. Government had concurred, had offered to approach Britain and France-about Italy's territorial claims, about the creation "when the appropriate occasion arose-quot; of a stable world order...
...afternoon sun of June 10 was almost down the heavens of western Eu rope when Dictator Benito Mussolini stepped out on his balcony in the Palazzo Venezia at Rome to announce that now, the Allies' darkest hour in nine months of fighting against Germany, was Italy's hour to take active part on Germany's side...
...great people is truly such if it con siders its obligation sacred and does not avoid the supreme trials which determine the course of history." Now that France was struggling for her life-breath, and Great Britain was girding against invasion, Benito Mussolini cried: "We are taking up arms to resolve, after reaching a solution of the problem of our continental frontiers, the problem of our frontiers...