Word: mussolini
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...into the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. In the 19th Century the British, the French and finally the Italians each grabbed themselves a wedge of Ethiopia's shore. In their portion called Eritrea (pop. 1,000,000; area 50,000 sq. mi.), the Italians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist era rebuilt the old city of Asmara. From Eritrea the Italians launched their conquest of Emperor Haile Selassie's domain. It took World War II to drive the Italians out again and put Haile Selassie back on the throne...
...Scottish Naturalist and Explorer Donald John Munro, R.N., C.M.G., tried to form a Loch Ness Monster Co. to investigate Nessie. Then in 1941, a pilot of Mussolini's air force solemnly announced that he had bombed the Loch Ness monster out of existence...
...genius and his optimism. Heartbreak House appeared to many as a confusion. The disillusion with the failures of the Labor government, in which the Webbs and many of his Fabian friends served, turned Shaw back to his own inherited responses. The old 18th Century taste for autocrats revived. So Mussolini was admired, Hitler was given a hand and Stalin was exalted. Their virtue was that they were practical. Shaw appeared to agree with the scientists that what succeeds is good and he had been careful, as a Marxist, to say that capitalism had been good in the days when...
...General Smedley D. Butler, made a captain at 19 for bravery during the Boxer Rebellion, once walked alone into a rebel camp during a Nicaraguan revolution, seized the rebel general by his mustache, and ended the revolt. Years later, having retired after an uproar over his burning criticisms of Mussolini, he wrote an article [for Liberty] entitled "To Hell with the Admirals...
...Secrets. Journeying to China in 1927, "Kalty" interviewed Chiang Kaishek, "an altogether charming human being" at a back province Buddhist monastery. The generalissimo, says Kaltenborn, "was clearly pleased that we had come so far to see him," and sent a breakfast of "California oranges and . . . San Francisco chocolate drops." Mussolini was pleased, too. "He even treated us as important guests by rising from his chair and advancing to the front of his desk while we covered the interminable distance . . . across the immense room." When Il Duce had trouble with English words, recalls Kaltenborn, "I would tentatively suggest one. Several times...