Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important speech since he conquered Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini in Milan last week urged France and England to scrap what he considers their political shibboleths and join Italy and Germany in ultimately un-Bolshevizing Russia. II Duce postulated that "Bolshevism is only super-Capitalism of a State carried to the most ferocious extreme. . . . The time has come to put an end to it!" He postulated further: "If there is a country where concrete, real and substantial Democracy has been realized, this country is Italy of the Fascist...
...Disarmament"; "the illusion of Collective Security"; "the illusion of Indivisible Peace"; "the absurdity of Juridical Parity among all States"; and therefore to renounce as the avatar of all these the League of Nations "and the lies that still constitute relics of the great shipwreck of Wilsonian ideology." The entire speech was of such extreme compression and explosive candor that Il Duce could be said to have stated the quintessence of Fascism in just about 14 minutes...
With this solid backing the Premier of China celebrated his 50th birthday, and the peak of his career thus far, by hurling a kindling speech at his excited friends and countrymen: "My Government has overcome the twin menaces of Communism and Chinese disunion. We can wholly dismiss any insinuation that some exterior Great Power is needed to help China maintain order within her own borders. Forward, fellow citizens, to revive our old national traits of self-reliance, of self-government, temperance and self-consciousness. Show the world that the Chinese people can do great things...
...Happen Here as a piece of dramaturgy. Despite its faults, it is a serviceable and occasionally terrifying presentation of Sinclair Lewis' thesis that the rubber-truncheon and concentration-camp sort of Fascism is a creeping disease and not a sudden explosion. Called to a Manhattan stage for a speech after last week's first performance, Author Lewis appeared, looked at his watch, barked: "I've been making a speech since seven minutes to nine," and vanished into the wings...
Alone with a microphone, after all the crowds, the shouts, the flaring lights, Alf Landon spoke in a voice surprisingly calm and deep. It grew ever quieter, slower, more halting as he reached the close of his election eve broadcast, last speech of his campaign. "Our healing . . . will be revealed by the still small voice-that speaks to the conscience-and the heart -prompting us to a wider-and wiser- humanity." On came the voice of the announcer, reverent and tender, as if speaking the epilog of a sad and stirring drama: "And so, quiet falls over the study...