Word: mussolini
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...that listeners could hear the crackle of gunfire. For 20 days during the Munich crisis in 1938, he scarcely budged from his CBS studio in New York, where he subsisted on onion soup and slept on a cot. He provided running translations of the speeches of Hitler and Mussolini as they came over short wave and analyzed them on the spot. He saw the significance of Munich and warned his audiences accordingly: "Hitler always says after each of his conquests, 'Now, no more. All is well.' But there has always been more, and there may be more still...
...earlier contribution to broadcasting journalism. People had forgotten the clipped, high-pitched, precisely accentuated tones of H. V. Kaltenborn, who died at 86 last week of a heart attack. In his prime in the '30s, Kaltenborn had roamed a sick Europe, producing fascinating, ominous interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, and his brilliant marathon coverage of the Munich crisis jarred American homes into a chilling awareness of the war to come...
...descendants of a breakaway Catholic sect that was excommunicated in 1184, and turned Protestant in the 16th century-were forbidden to attend universities, practice law or medicine, or open new churches. The unification of Italy brought an invasion of Methodist and Baptist missionaries from Britain and the U.S., but Mussolini's 1929 agreement with the Vatican made Catholicism the state church, and Fascist laws strictly curtailed Protestants...
...opinion of this House, Columbus went too far." So respected is the Oxford Union that when in 1933 it resolved "That this House would not fight for King and Country," a storm of controversy swept Britain, and historians as authoritative as Winston Churchill have said that Hitler and Mussolini pursued their plans on the theory that all Britain was going pacifist...
...countries. The academicians tackled the job again in 1842, and plugged away for 81 years in their classical Dantean style, leading one critic to call the work "a vile, barbarous collection of excommunicated language." They were all the way up to the letter O when the more modern-minded Mussolini government ordered the project abandoned...