Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian supplied had ben depleted during the wars in Ethiopia and Spain, and what remained were squandered in Albania, Salvemini said. Fear of a French attack forced Mussolini to abstain from fighting. The British blockade of Italian imports has made it exceedingly difficult for the army to recoup its materiel losses...
Until Hitler has organized Russian production and transportation sufficiently for Italy to benefit, there is little chance that Mussolini will decide to enter the conflict...
...held a press conference at which, with great politeness, he had told correspondents that he had nothing to say. At 5 o'clock he had walked the 60-foot stretch of marble floor in the Palazzo Venezia that visitors must cross to approach the desk of Benito Mussolini. His hour's talk with Il Duce (who wore civilian clothes to emphasize that it was an unofficial visit) was followed by a dinner given by the U. S. Ambassador to Rome. He had lunched on the second day with the French and British Ambassadors and had tea with...
Thus peevishly-but not too peevishly-Dictator Mussolini's personal newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia grumbled last week at a Great Power with whom Il Duce is engaged in economic horse trading. On the books of Italian firms are Allied orders for munitions and other war supplies totaling over three billion gold lire ($157,893,000). These orders are being filled for Great Britain and France even ahead of the requirements of the Italian Army. Il Duce would like the Allies to buy more Italian food, fewer manufactures, but they want to continue to keep Italian heavy industry...
...German, and Italy must somehow get foreign coal if her industry is not to stop. Normally she imports four-fifths of her coal. German coal could be routed via Switzerland to Italy by rail, but the hard-pressed Reich cannot spare enough rolling stock for that. Last week Dictator Mussolini began warming up again the stale Rome-Berlin Axis...