Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cordial, jovial Americans," he wrote of the momentous changeover in his early life, "the British were standoffish and haughty. I never learned to like them." He did learn to imitate their cool, diplomatic ways. As the years rolled by and Victor Emmanuel's monarchy gave way to Benito Mussolini's dictatorship, the village boy became a perfect embodiment of that superdiplomat-the diplomatic gentleman's gentleman. As a tactful and understanding embassy servant he was entrusted with all sorts of delicate missions by the well-born young Britons of His Majesty's Foreign Service...
...took them over to his Italian contact, smoked and drank in nervous anxiety for seven hours while they were being photographed, and had them back safe in the morning. That, Costantini did admit, "was a bad moment," but it had a telling effect on Fascist policy. After that. Benito Mussolini's breakfasts were made pleasanter by the fact that he could read reports from Whitehall to Rome often before British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond himself had seen them...
...first 1912 Caproni monoplane set speed, altitude and distance records; of a heart attack; in Rome. Builder (in 1914) of the first multimotored airplanes to stay aloft, Caproni converted them to bombers, prospered during World War I on the side of the Allies, later became a Fascist and provided Mussolini with planes for his Ethiopian raids...
...floor of Franklin Roosevelt's auto in North Africa. In the next 25 hour-and half-hour weekly installments the same technique and an array of writers will try to capture the times through film essays on specific subjects, e.g., the first rocket missiles, the FBI, Benito Mussolini, the Windsor love story, the Nürnberg trials. If only' some of them equal the quality of the first, CBS's Twentieth Century will be far ahead of the real one in that it can be pronounced a success...
...chartered plane from Prague, did Freud agree to go to England. To arrange the trip it took three months and all of Jones's influence with highly placed Britons, plus an assist from U.S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt and possibly a word from Franklin Roosevelt and Mussolini as well. Freud's ailing heart, buoyed by nitroglycerin, stood the journey well, and he was received in London like a conqueror-as befitted a man who during the trip had dreamed that he was landing at Pevensey, where William the Conqueror landed in 1066. Later Freud...