Word: mussolini
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...years before, Mussolini had marched on Corfu. The three-year-old League had been too timid to rebuke him, so France and Britain had elbowed it aside to push the aggressor out themselves. Paraguay and Bolivia had fought a three-year war over South America's Chaco without interference. And Japan had marched calmly into Manchuria and out of Geneva. "The League," said Delegate Matsuoka then, "has done an awful thing. ... It has attempted to elevate itself to a superstate. Is the world at this stage really prepared to accept...
...poor in Italy have rations equivalent to the diet enjoyed in 1937 at the peak of Mussolini's prosperity era. . . . [Italy] is a veritable land of plenty, while in all three countries black-market restaurants supplied steaks, eggs, fruits and other delicacies at prices equivalent to those of restaurants in New York...
...When the Met's new manager, Edward Johnson, was approved in 1935, he did not renew De Luca's high-salaried contract. Throughout the war, De Luca was in Italy. His 30-room villa was untouched by bombs which flattened the house of his neighbor, Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's press aide. De Luca said: "For five years I was playing cards. I refused to sing because I was not in a good humor...
...villain, in the Hollywood sense of the word-even the fascist is an understandable human being. Nowhere have the Swiss fallen into the trap of personifying evil in well-known typed characters: the snivelling, mustached Italian informer, the hard-bitten, blond German storm trooper, or the bloated soap-box Mussolini. Instead, they have kept evil as a massive force--the German Army or War--against which everyone in the film is pitted; the result is a refreshing relief from the run-of-the-mill war movie technique...
...also was billed 5.5 billion lire by Mussolini. He never got around to paying this debt to a creditor going out of business...