Word: signore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved by the Fascist Government," was the gloating comment, last week, of Il Tevere and other Fascist news organs, when Signor Benito Mussolini caused to be revealed in Rome that a new Italo-Albanian treaty had been signed two days previously in the Albanian capital, Tirana...
Explanation lies in the fact that Italians were becoming anxious, last fortnight, over the signing of an accord between France and Jugoslavia in mid-November. If so great a Power as France was throwing her prestige upon the side of Italy's potential enemy, Jugoslavia, then it behooved Signor Mussolini to trumpet that Italy is unafraid and not unbefriended...
...Signor Mussolini rapped the table for silence and, rising, unfolded to the assembled Fascists a plan for abolishing universal suffrage. In brief this is what he commanded: 1) Only members of the 13 Fascist corporations, which include all Fascist producers and workers, shall be eligible to vote, because they are active contributors to the advancement of the nation...
...with pleasure. She presented Il Duce with a copy of her father's translation of Dante's Divinia Commedia-a work that had aroused enthusiasm at Harvard in the 80's and had given a great impulse to the study of Dante in the U. S. Signor Mussolini gravely thanked her for thus honoring him and, in a cordial conversation, expressed his great admiration for her poet-father...
...proclamation to the nation in general and the Fascisti in particular, Signor Mussolini said...