Word: benito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator Benito Mussolini has given this task to the "Army of the Po" under General Ettore Bastico. Its 50,000 men are divided into three corps; "armored" divisions equipped with heavy tanks and mobile artillery; four "swift" divisions of fast tanks and light guns; "motorized" troops which can travel at high speed over open roads. Theoretically, after the armored corps has made a breakthrough, the other divisions will keep the enemy rolling back without an opportunity of reforming its lines...
Since Italian Fascism is the personification of youth and Benito Mussolini is the embodiment of Fascism, one of the embarrassments of Italy today is that Il Duce is growing old. Last week Dictator Mussolini was 56, but unlike his German comrade, Adolf Hitler, whose birthdays are celebrated with more splendor each year, Il Duce preferred not to have his mentioned...
...peasants from all parts of Italy greeted him with gifts of wine, fruit, spaghetti, cheese, olive oil. He reviewed them, told them his spirit was "unchangeably rural." They in turn filed past the tomb of Alessandro and Rosa Maltoni Mussolini, Il Duce's parents, visited the house where Benito Mussolini was born and the blacksmith shop where his father worked...
...Master's Voice. Whatever have been the shortcomings of Fascism, Benito Mussolini, in this 17th year of his regime, can still be said to be revered by the majority of his understanding Italian people. That his reputation for political infallibility has suffered, however, is no secret, nor is there the slightest difficulty in finding out why. The alliance with Germany has not set well with the Italian people...
Birthdays. Benito Mussolini, 56; George Bernard Shaw, 83, quietly, in London, England; Henry Ford, 76, quietly, in Dearborn, Mich.; Booth Tarkington, 70, quietly, in Kennebunkport, Me. (Informed that it was Mussolini's birthday, Author Tarkington observed: "I have led a nice quiet life, which is more than...