Word: signor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seipel for instruc- tions. "Yield," was the substance of the Monsignor's reply. On the same day that the flag had been torn down, it was replaced and saluted by 30 Austrian soldiers, while Consul Riccardi & staff gave the famed rising Fascist cheer, "eia-eia-eia-alala!" for Signor Mussolini. Diplomats deemed the swiftness with which satisfaction was demanded and given virtually a record. As night fell over the stones and spires of Innsbruck, the slumbers of gruff Governor Stumpf were interrupted by indignant student-patriots who assembled and shouted: "Down with our cowardly Government! It seeks to kill...
Meanwhile Right Honorable Members learned from London news organs that Signor Mussolini had just informed Mr. Kellogg that "The Royal Government of Italy . . . offers very willingly . . . cordial collaboration toward reaching an agreement...
...children in Milan; but with approaching spring she moves out to the Mussolini estate at Forli, where, each summer, Il Duce indulges in a brief fit of farm labor which he calls "fighting the battle of the grain." At such times, and during the Christmas and Easter visits of Signor Mussolini to Milan, it is possible that he is persuaded, cajoled, nagged. But he is only known to have yielded once. On this occasion-just prior to the birth of Babe Romano-Donna Mussolini begged and received a decree of amnesty for some arrested antiFascists who hailed from her native...
Naturally the climax of Correspondent James' dash to Rome came when he was ushered into the enormous, high ceilinged office of Signor Mussolini in the Palazzo Chigi. Soon Il Duce consented to discuss a subject at which most men shy, the prospect of his own death. Said he: "I am here today and gone tomorrow; but let no one think Fascism goes with me. . . . I do not know how long Mussolini will last, but Fascism shall last longer. ... I will leave to Italy the institution of Fascism established on solid grounds-an historic institution. . . . The youth of Italy shall...
...bearings firmly taken, Correspondent James proceeded to shed light on the recent acrimonious exchange of speeches between Pope Pius XI and Il Duce, as to whether the Church or State shall predominate in educating Italian Youth. Mr. James significantly revealed that in the course of smoothing down this quarrel, Signor Mussolini has agreed that the Fascist Youth organizations shall hereafter receive spiritual training under the auspices of the Church, while all other instruction shall continue lay and Fascist...