Word: mussolinis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't much care how important Albania's oil is to Mussolini until I noticed widely divergent estimates expressed in TIME and in TIME'S sister magazine, LIFE. Now I'm really curious...
...half years the Rome-Berlin Axis has ticked like a clock. Sympathetic Adolf Hitler has cheered loudly when Friend Benito Mussolini corrected the "pyramidal errors of geography." II Duce has applauded as the Führer grabbed Lebensraum ("living space") for himself. The two even joined hands for a while in Spain. But while committed to give moral aid to each other, no German-Italian understanding to give military help was ever put down in black & white. In fact, rainbow-chasing French and British politicians believed that Italy would balk before it came to that...
...Last week, however, the British took the first step toward legitimatizing the Hitler grab by according de facto recognition to Slovakia. They named Peter Pares, formerly a British consul in the Sudetenland, as consul at Bratislava. Britain also was the first big democratic power to urge recognition of Benito Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia and Generalissimo Francisco Franco's victory in Spain...
...Rome. The New York Times boldly predicted that the Rome reviews would compare Caesar to "Shakespeare, Goethe and Wagner at their best, and with a touch of genius that even these great men did not attain." "It is understood," continued the fimes, "that a relatively new playwright named Benito Mussolini collaborated with Signer Forzano on this opus...
Married. Giuseppina Manchini, niece of Benito Mussolini; and Aviation Lieut. Renato Romanini, recently returned from bombing Spain; in Rome. To attend the wedding, Premier Mussolini postponed for one hour a Cabinet meeting called to hear his new armament program...