Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Power of Trinity has considered the potential threat that exists should he be victorious in this Italian incident. If he has thought of the effect on the great colonial powers were his tribesmen, savage, and untutored in modern military strategy, to defeat the well equipped, tactically superior legions of Rome. Does he not know that the white nations most powerful in Africa will look with deep concern on this native triumph? That prominent Britons will look askance at this hitherto unconsidered puissance which commands the Lake Tana and which may, by example, menace the British hegemony in Africa...
...fact of doubtful significance. Neutral military experts in Washington, Berlin. Paris and London consider that Premier Mussolini's deepest purposes have not yet been revealed, but that unquestionably he has hamstrung his soldier's war in East Africa by political and diplomatic back-seat driving from Rome. Darting raids by Italian bombers, unaccompanied by troop operations on the ground, have resulted in little more than the enemy's terror and disorganization. After major advances there have been sudden, desultory lulls. Because concurrent maneuvers on the Diplomatic Front have been secret and clandestine, II Duce is perhaps...
...ROME-Lion Feuchtwanger -Viking...
...Majesty at last gave the straight-armed Fascist salute, originally the Roman salute of the Caesars. After returning it the multitude of women began to file past the urn, dropping in gold rings all morning, all afternoon, well into the night. By this time Rome, with a population of approximately 1,000,000, had given some 250,000 gold rings, the day's total for all Italy being computed later as worth $80,000,000. Among the wives was the Dictator's. Millions of Italian women, unlike their Queen, reacted first to their new iron rings...
When Il Duce got back to Rome he had his Grand Council cite The Deal as "repudiated" by Britain and had all Italy plastered with fresh slogan stickers reading: "There is always Reason in what Mussolini does...