Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mussolini took her small son Romano and baby daughter Anna Maria down by car from the Mussolini family farm at Forli to say good-by to papa at Bologna. There his special train from Rome paused for family kisses and heartily the Dictator bussed young Mrs. Vittorio Mussolini whose husband was en route to Hollywood (see p. 21). Later at Trento, where in his youth Mussolini was imprisoned, crowds roared "Viva II Duce!" and he shouted back "Viva Trento!" The train chuffed on, stopped for several hours in the mountains during the night to give the Dictator a better chance...
Although Langer felt "thoroughly deflated by the genial sarcasm of my colleague", he proceeded to give a summary of European affairs high-spotted by minimizing the importance of the new Rome-Berlin axis...
...these two powers find it to their in- terest to maintain it." He doubted if it would be any real interest of Hitler to support the Mediterranean interests of Mussolini. "If the British could bring themselves to return some of the conquered colonies to Germany," Langer feels that the Rome-Berlin axis would "probably crack...
...British and French armies drew together in close technical cooperation during the World War-adopted toward Italy last week an attitude in which surface politeness was blended with hauteur. The great Democracies did not join Leftist Spain in crying "Pirate!" at Il Duce, indeed they carefully sent to Rome copies of every project they adopted or discussed, even held up release of one of these to the press until it could be scanned by Premier Mussolini. To most observers it was obvious that British Foreign Secretary Eden, who hates and scorns Il Duce, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
...said in effect: "As you are the Pirate, we intend to destroy your pirate ships everywhere except in your back yard, and we invite you to destroy them there!" This seemed in London and Paris to be just about diplomacy's best joke of the year, but in Rome it did not take Benito Mussolini long to see that he could turn it immensely to his advantage in Berlin-and this week Il Duce is journeying to visit the Führer...