Word: duce
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...edge of the skiff which teetered dangerously as he pulled himself aboard, sat down sopping at the tiller while Chancellor Dollfuss rowed the skiff out of earshot of plebeian bathers. During their rowboat conference the two statesmen undoubtedly discussed: 1) the Italian-Austrian-Hungarian trade pact negotiated by Il Duce and Premier Julius Gömbös in Rome (TIME, Aug. 7); 2) the fact that anti-Dollfuss propaganda was again being broadcast to Austria from German radio stations last week, despite the Hitler Government's assurance to Premier Mussolini that such propaganda would cease (TIME...
...flew to the Adriatic beach resort of Riccione for a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini, found him swimming offshore and disinclined to come in. For Chancellor Dollfuss to have waited abjectly on the beach would have been too undignified. He hired a small skiff, rowed out to where Il Duce was floating on his back...
...platform) where stood Benito Mussolini, Crown Prince Umberto, the King's aviator-cousin the Duke of Aosta, U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long. He stood on his plane's thick wing for a moment, arm outstretched in salute. Then he leaped ashore to be warmly kissed by Il Duce...
...began a march on foot down Rome's new Via Trionfale (laurel-carpeted) beneath the Arch of Constantine, unused for such purpose since the ancient Romans paraded through it on returning from the wars. Up Palatine Hill the parade trooped, into the ruins of the Stadium where Il Duce awaited them in the modest uniform of a militia corporal. General Balbo stepped forward, received from Il Duce a biretta and gold eagle denoting him Italy's first Air Marshal. Then lieutenant-colonels of the squadron were promoted to colonels; captains to majors, mechanics to non-commissioned officers...
When these words of Dr. Piperno's come to his ears- "Questo si fara soffrire un poco" (This is going to hurt a little)- Il Duce does not groan and stiffen his limbs. Instead he merely growls, "Non temo il dolore" (I do not fear pain...