Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emperor Haile Selassie had another way in 1935 when Mussolini's troops attacked: "Everyone will now be mobilized, and all boys old enough to carry a spear will be sent to Addis Ababa. Married men will take their wives to carry food and cook. Those without wives will take any women without husbands. Women with small babies need not go. The blind, those who cannot walk or for any reason cannot carry a spear, are exempt. Anyone found at home after receipt of this order will be hanged...
...Roman Roads. The Packards' second-front strategy, for which the rest of their book is sprawling, disorganized documentation, emanates less from the armchair than from the bouncing seats of cars on Mussolini's roads. To watch the Fascist empire at war, the Packards jolted over thousands of miles of Neo-Roman roads in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, North Africa and Italy...
Sutherland: Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin are gangsters. Hull and Churchill are a couple of cops. All right, we're in a big city-say Chicago. The cops are interested in law & order and in keeping business going. Oh, sure, they'll accept a cigar, or an apple from the fruit stand. ... All honest graft, you know-say, like Governments have trade treaties and favored-nations clauses and a little international edge here and there. But on the whole the cops really do keep peace and stop fights between the neighbors and keep the city going...
...years Benito Mussolini roared grandiose nonsense from his balcony. He rubbed snow on his bare chest for photographers. To his superstitious peasants he proclaimed that war was the natural state of a healthy nation. Last week, in a small voice. Il Duce urged his people: "Tener Duro" ("Hold firm...
...unnatural Mussolini's state of war is to the Italian people was evident after bombers had swarmed over Milan. Public outcries and wall inscriptions calling for peace led Il Duce to change governors and purge his Party leadership. When King Vittorio Emanuel and his Queen, aping Britain's monarchs, visited Milan and Turin, haggard, frightened civilians chanted, "We want peace...