Word: mussolinis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Real mosquitoes, as distinguished from subchasers, must be fast enough and small enough to dart among an enemy fleet, loose torpedoes at murderous range. Benito Mussolini's Navy perfected them, used them to good advantage against Loyalist Spain and even showed the way to British mosquito designers (including famed Racer Hubert Scott-Paine). For the price of a 45,000-ton battleship, the U. S. Navy probably could build 750 mosquitoes, as an experiment plans to order four immediately. On the theory that the U. S. probably will never have to fight a naval war at home, Navy...
Major Vernon Bartlett, M. P., offered a "peace formula" to the House of Commons : "We shall not be able to enjoy ourselves until Franco's widow tells Stalin on his deathbed that Hitler has been assassinated at Mussolini's funeral...
...high degree of unanimity between the President and his Premier. Premier Edouard Daladier eulogized him. In return M. Lebrun, who had recently been exposed to Neville Chamberlain's belated distrust of the dictators, came out strongly against aggressors, and praised the strong reply of Premier Daladier to Benito Mussolini's declaration on Italy's colonial issues (TIME, April 3). M. Daladier had said quite flatly and unexcitedly over the air that: 1) France would willingly discuss Italy's demands as soon as Italy clarified them; but 2) France would not "cede a foot of our land...
Even Hitler had a mother, even Mussolini had a ma; When they were babies they were cross, perhaps, But all they needed was a change of naps-maps...
...hard upon the Black Shirts, they may be rather Swastika, But even Hitler had a mother and even Mussolini...