Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Gina Ruberti Mussolini, 29, pretty brunette widow of the Duce's second son, Bruno; by drowning (when a small boat sank during a midnight boating party with British soldiers); in Lake Como...
...began, five armed raiders slipped into the radio station at suburban Monte Mario, overpowered attendants, seized the master transmitter. Into the microphone they shouted the Blackshirt war cry, "Duce, a noi!"-"Duce, to us!" They played a recording of the Blackshirt war song, Giovinezza. They declaimed: "Italians! Remember Mussolini made our country great and powerful! We have not been freed but occupied. Slaves, arise and liberate yourselves...
...helped suppress freedom of speech. As late as 1942 he had endorsed aggressive war. The clincher was an erstwhile bestseller titled Face of the Earth, which Hatoyama had written in 1938, after a tour of Europe. Excerpts: "The Japanese people . . . must not betray Hitler's faith in them." "Mussolini is one of the great heroes of his generation...
This week Hatoyama tried to correct the impression his book had made. "I said," he told reporters, "that Hitler's eye was piercing and that Mussolini was diligent...
...Thomas Beecham, chin-whiskered conductor of the London Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents. . . . All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women...