Word: signore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council of the Fascist Party (not to be confused with the Fascist Grand Council) would combine in a Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Last October the Fascist Grand Council decreed the abolition of the old Chamber. Last December the Chamber obediently held its last session, sang Giovinezza, passed unanimously Signor Mussolini's anti-Semitic laws and cheerfully voted its own death...
...concessions demanded by Italy-such as a free port at Djibouti, the Addis Ababa railway, and a share in the Suez Canal. But England was confident three weeks ago that Adolf Hitler would behave himself. As for the Italian people, they were anxious for glory but somewhat jittery. Signor Mussolini closed his speech with an old Fascist motto: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" The Italians knew whom to obey, but just what to believe and whom they would have to fight was a big mystery...
...curious reporter has ever had a peek at the Grand Council's list but best Rome gossip says Mussolini's successor is likely to be Signor Balbo, Governor of Libya...
Early in the week a Frenchman named Hubert Lagardelle, who lives in Rome and hobnobs with Signor Mussolini, went to Paris supposedly charged with a secret mission. Before long everyone knew the secret. He called on a Daladier lieutenant, Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie, and suggested that he tell his boss the time was ripe for Paris to woo Rome. Next day King Vittorio Emmanuele read his mild-as-milk speech before the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. Day after that France's Ambassador in Rome, Andre François-Poncet, called on Crown Prince Humbert...
...Finally, Signor Mussolini himself, speaking before 65,000 Blackshirts in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Fascist Movement, did not list specific demands on France, as expected, but merely repeated many a Mussolini bromide: the axis is strong, the democracies are wrong, the Mediterranean is Italy's sphere of influence, Italy's biggest wish is peace and biggest need is more ships, cannon and airplanes. Specifically on the subject of Mediterranean conflicts with the French, he said openly that the next move was France...