Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening of May 9 last week, Adolf Hitler went to a cinema in Berlin, a sentimental musical film like The Student Prince. His No. 2 man, Field Marshal Hermann Goring, and Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels attended the premiere of Cavour, a play on which Benito Mussolini, onetime journalist, collaborated. Italy's dictator promised his royalty for the first evening, and half of all his subsequent royalties, to the German Red Cross. Field Marshal Goring arrived late, which made his presence, in resplendent white uniform, the more conspicuous...
...time was coming, if it were not already at hand, for Benito Mussolini to nudge his titular partner's elbow with proffered aid (see p. 31). If the war continued at its last week's pace and direction, he might have to bestir himself in order to give his partnership any appearance of usefulness or sincerity...
...Nazi press yowled triumphantly over this sensational finale to Germany's conquest of Norway. This yowling revealed that the dive-bombing attack, and its stunning "result," were intended for the special benefit of Italy, into whose neighborhood an Allied fleet had moved in admonition against Mussolini's entering Hitler's war. Italy is long on bombing planes, not so long on battleships...
...this looked like so serious a threat to peace in the Mediterranean that U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, on orders from Washington, asked for and got a personal interview with Il Duce (see p. 19). They talked for 45 minutes and correspondents guessed that Mr. Phillips had told Mussolini that the U. S. would keep its shipping out of the Mediterranean if Italy went to war. But that would have been no news to Benito Mussolini. That the U. S. Government was putting all possible "pressure" on Italy to keep the peace was made clear next day when Ambassador Phillips...
Bellicose Benito Mussolini last week found himself in the odd position of owing the protection of his life to peace-loving Pope Pius XII. After a bombproof shelter with walls nine feet thick had been prepared for His Holiness, and gas masks were distributed to all Vatican City residents, the belligerent powers belatedly came forth with formal assurance that Rome would not be attacked even if Italy got in the war. Reason: Even with the most accurate bomb sights, it would be practically impossible to bomb the Italian capital without hitting the Church's Holy City. No side wants...