Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word, the attitude of Benito Mussolini at 26 toward "the people" was as scornful, as sneeringly paternalistic and as essentially Fascist as is his attitude today. The conclusion is attractive and difficult to resist that the Man of Destiny "used" and even "espoused" Socialism, just as he has Roman Catholicism, solely as a means to his unswerving and consistent ends: Power & Paternalism...
...back on gold at a lower valuation than that at first desired by Signor Mussolini. But from this it must not be rashly assumed that Count Volpi was "asked to resign." The irritable Duce has in other moods given his Finance Minister to understand that he must resist certain highly lucrative offers from the sphere of private business which have become especially tempting of late...
...statesmen of strongest will who testified that they could barely resist these powers were onetime President of the Duma Michael Rodzianko and onetime Prime Minister Peter Arcadevich Stolypin...
...shall file suit against Mgr. Ladeuze and carry the fight to the highest court in Belgium. I shall continue to resist with the full conviction that if the Belgians yield this question, they will be yielding to the Germans...
...time into Mr. Hyde, with a sly wink at his own cleverness. He did not, indeed, want to be found out, but had not supposed that he was doing anything very bad until at last he allowed the evil habit to grow so strong that he could not resist it, and he was a permanent Hyde...