Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppression of the French Communist Party, no less than in the mysterious report that Adolf Hitler might put an abrupt and disconcerting end to the Stop Hitler movement by abdicating. But the scorn burned warmest in the stories that dealt with the likelihood that those great pacifists, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, had united in the drive for Peace...
Italy's position astride the European fence was growing increasingly uncomfortable last week. The story came out that Benito Mussolini, still under pressure from Great Britain and France to come down off the fence and fight in one lot or the other, was making overtures to Britain by sending Count Dino Grandi back to London (where he used to be Ambassador) to talk things over. That the pressure came not only from abroad was indicated by whispered gossip in Rome that Fascist Secretary Achille Starace had formed a cabal backed by the King, the Army and the peasantry, which...
Usually well informed embassies heard that when Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, arrived in Berlin Sunday he conveyed a conciliatory peace plan which Premier Benito Mussolini had evolved. It provided for recreation of an independent Poland of restricted size to be guaranteed by all the great European powers instead of by Germany and the Soviet Union alone...
...threatened all the Balkans, where Italy has "vital interests." It was against every historical precedent for Italy to let Germany and Russia get away with the Balkans, but, on the other hand, if Germany knocked out Britain and France, Italy could clean up in the Mediterranean. Foxy Benito Mussolini took counsel with himself and at week's end delivered a speech that was a masterpiece of straddling, far removed from the blood-&-thunderousness of his speeches of the last four years...
Last week Benito Mussolini had a long talk with 77-year-old Marshal Enrico Caviglia, one of the few Italian heroes of World War I. Marshal Caviglia had recently inspected the fortifications on the Italo-French frontier and it was presumed that he and Il Duce did not discuss the weather. After this meeting all good Italians still waited anxiously for Mussolini to say something very definite about which way Italy would jump, as they had waited for three weeks since war began...