Word: mussolinis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said Mussolini: "Love is the prime pastime of mankind. . . . Modern woman cannot get away from love. . . . She is no new woman...
These polished words of Lord Birkenhead-typical of his youth as a smart lawyer named F. E. Smith-were flatly contradicted by Dictator Mussolini thus: "The oft-repeated platitude that somewhere in every strong man there is the influence of a woman, is a woven fancy. That there is a feminine 'power behind the throne' is a flimsy tissue of the imagination. No woman ever has been the dominant influence in a strong man's life...
...Fascist Mussolini seemingly did not conceive that his ardent words could give offense; but Anti-Fascist Birkenhead, conscious that his icy logic must have offended, threw a concluding sop to women: "Though a woman may not take a revealed part in the conduct of affairs, we need not fall into the error of supposing that she has no influence in deciding them. ... I can make my meaning more easily understood by repeating a remark made by the Duchess of Burgundy to Madame de Maintenon. 'Do you know,' she said, 'why the queens of England have ruled...
Though such rumors were obviously intended to produce a maximum shock from a minimum content of fact, they made it impossible for Signor Benito Mussolini to continue to pass over in silence the resignation of Finance Minister Count Volpi. The response of Il Duce, obediently voiced by unanimous editorials in the State dominated press, was that Fascist Italy has perfected as a substitute for the cabinet crises of more democratic states the Doctrine of Ministerial Rotations. Stripped of rhetoric, the Doctrine means that, while France gets a new set of Ministers every time her Cabinet falls, the fact that Prime...
Briefly, Senator Mosconi, who assumed the portfolio of Finance, last week, is typical of the old, feudal aristocracy of Italy, whose descendants Commoner Mussolini constantly rallies to his own essentially feudal standard-a standard now ascendant over the Throne, as not a few were in feudal times...