Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stomached ("Always doddering ... it has no roots in the soil and is ... like a cut flower in a vase"), and it was up to Nakano to return Japan to the path of greatness. In the sword he saw the surest physician for Japan's ailments; in Hitler and Mussolini he saw proof that his prescription was right...
...heard Premier Hideki Tojo admit that the U.S., defeated at the beginning, was now "overcoming many difficulties and dangers, and the war is growing in intensity." Nakano also knew what most men-in-the-street could barely guess: Japan had suffered reverses in the South Pacific (see col. 2); Mussolini had become a shabby puppet; Hitler...
Less gracious was Count Sforza's liberal Partito d'Azione (Action Party), which charged that the Pope "has always been a reactionary favoring an absolute and paternal government, even after Mussolini's fall." Said the Action Party: "By means of a Parliament and the press we must discuss with the people ways of restricting the Church's influence. This might be done by encouraging other forms of religion...
Badoglio said that it was all Mussolini's fault. He said that the Duce explained plunging Italy into the war with the words: "In September everything will be over, and I need some thousands of dead to be able to sit at the peace table as a belligerent." Badoglio said that Mussolini had not consulted anyone before writing Hitler at the end of May 1940 that he would declare war by June...
...Marshal wanted the record straight. To make sure, he gave an interview last week to the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews, the Baltimore Sun's Mark S. Watson and a correspondent of the London Times. He told them that Mussolini had sought to dissuade Hitler from war in 1939, but that the swift advance of the Germans through Belgium and France in May 1940 changed his mind. In placing the blame, Badoglio omitted to mention King Vittorio Emanuele's signing of the declaration...