Word: popolo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committed suicide "following a definite invitation of the French High Command," reported Benito Mussolini's newspaper Popolo d'ltalia, reviving the romantic tradition which demands that an officer who fails disastrously be handed a bottle of brandy and a loaded pistol...
That this was no private opinion of fire-eating Blackshirt, but the line all of Italy's controlled press was ordered to take, was made clear when the sober Popolo di Roma declared: "The Belgian and Dutch request for assistance is nothing more than official and public manifestation of a pre-existing armed solidarity...
After U. S. troops had returned from World War I, Webb Miller stayed behind as chief of U. P.'s Paris bureau. At the Cannes Conference in 1922 he met a stubby reporter for Milan's Popolo d'Italia...
Fuming with rage, Il Duce's personal organ Popolo d'Italia screamed: "Italy will not accept Britain's dirty morality. . . . This immoral law which tries to take the air you breathe if that air suits the brutality of British egoism must cease...
Thus peevishly-but not too peevishly-Dictator Mussolini's personal newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia grumbled last week at a Great Power with whom Il Duce is engaged in economic horse trading. On the books of Italian firms are Allied orders for munitions and other war supplies totaling over three billion gold lire ($157,893,000). These orders are being filled for Great Britain and France even ahead of the requirements of the Italian Army. Il Duce would like the Allies to buy more Italian food, fewer manufactures, but they want to continue to keep Italian heavy industry...