Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dearly does the Fascist mind love Fascist anniversaries. After marking time for a fortnight, Italy's armies in the north and south of Ethiopia waited last week till the dawn of the 13th anniversary of the Blackshirt March on Rome, then struck simultaneously...
...Rome heard that Premier Mussolini, while still agreeable to maximum League exploitation for electioneering purposes, and while still standing on his public pledge not to reply to merely economic and fiscal sanctions with acts of war, demanded last week public retraction from London of what virtually the whole European Press was saying, namely that 147 British warships anchored on Italy's war flanks meant in substance: "Stanley Baldwin is out for Benito Mussolini's hide and that means the Dictator is through." This British massing of war boats, the Italian Government spokesman pointed out, was ordered by London...
Genius Mussolini, as studied by Scholar Finer in Rome last year: "First, then, Mussolini has a profound knowledge of men. . . . His penetration is extremely subtle: 'refined' as the Continental idiom has it. This does not apply to one special section of the people, like the peasantry among whom he was born, but to all. . . . The Senate, whose seats are filled by the grey-bearded 'personages,' is addressed [by Mussolini] with the gravity of an elder statesman; the Chamber with tempestuous fervor, and 'high inspiration' and humor. The peasants he salutes in the style...
...Italy . . . certain that he cannot fail. . . . The impact of his personality on men, women and children far from the vicinity of Mussolini's physical presence is astounding. Far away, even to the uttermost confines of the kingdom, beyond the hills and fields and marshes separating them from Rome, even beyond the ocean, the charm works. A businesslike Party official, hearing that I was to visit the Duce, exclaimed enraptured 'Oh, thou in beatitude...
...Mussolini, like Victoria, is also a prude. He abolishes brothels, puts Italian showgirls into modest garments, extinguishes Rome's once brilliant night life, does not drink, smoke or eat meat...