Word: mussolini
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...Late in October Mussolini launched an unprovoked attack on Greece, and by year's end all but one of these things had happened...
...Mussolini took personal command of his troops...
...Then 84-year-old Marshal Petain made a surprise move by ousting from power his Foreign Minister, Mussolini's friend...
After the picnic the Locarno chill thawed into the mellow "Spirit of Locarno." A peace pact was initialed, with Benito Mussolini rushing up to sign at the last moment. Amid worldwide optimistic hopes for a New Era, too little attention was paid to what such then uncensored German papers as the famed Berliner Tage-blatt had to say: "Germany, which two years ago was isolated . . . has . . . become a factor of might once more...
While Dictator Francisco Franco palavered along the Mediterranean with Dictator Mussolini and Marshal Pétain (see p. 27) his onetime sovereign added another egg to the Spanish omelet. Dandified, talkative King Alfonso XIII, deathly ill with angina pectoris in Rome, announced that a month ago he had abdicated his vacant throne in favor of his son, 27-year-old Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias...