Word: signore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Signor Coppola of Italy caused a slight rift in the general felicitations. His speech was a mixture of pessimism and militarism; and called for the study of disarmament "on political not technical grounds...
...agreements (TIME, Sept. 21) intended to guarantee the Rhine and Eastern frontiers of the Reich. It was announced that Austen Chamberlain and M. Briand will represent Britain and France; but that the opening of the general council of the Facist party at Rome, also on Oct. 5, will prevent Signor Mussolini from being present...
...action followed the mobbing he received the week before at Palermo, his home town in Sicily, at the rough hands of the local Fascisti (TIME, Aug. 10). In his letter to the President of the Chamber, Signor Orlando charged that his party (Liberal) had been unfairly defeated in the municipal elections,* declared that there was now no longer a place for a man of his record and political beliefs...
...recalled, however, that Signor Orlando was elected to the present Parliament on a Fascist ticket. When he deserted the Fascisti and went over to the Opposition (TIME, Dec. 1), he declared that he was not bound to resign, as he had been elected by the Liberal voters of Sicily who themselves had backed the Fascist ticket because he, Orlando, had backed it, and not because his constituents had any predictions for Fascism. The municipal election disproved Signor Orlando's contention and opponents averred that the only thing left for him to do was to resign...
...usual to assume that Signor Mussolini's volte face from Socialism was a sudden thing; but this is erroneous. In the autumn of 1914, he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, in which he advocated participation in the War on the side of the Allies, whereas he had been against intervention. The Socialists expelled him from the Party, but Mussolini remained a Socialist at heart, his revolutionary spirit unchecked...