Word: duce
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...Duce had guessed the right way to handle Chancellor Hitler. The French and British were haughtily told by Berlin's Foreign Office that "this intervention in Austro-German difficulties is inadmissible," but the Italian Government received a discreet, direct pledge that German propaganda to Nazify Austria will be toned down...
...last week was a swirling, roaring, giddy spot. Balbo was coming home. Banners and draperies hung from every balcony. Streets were festooned with lanterns. Billboards and telephone poles were plastered with pictures of Italo Balbo and his officers. Electric signs blazed the proud boast: "At the Order of Il Duce All Goals Are Reached." Special trains, with cheap excursion fares for the occasion, streamed in with thousands and thousands of countryfolk from all over Italy. The fever of excitement blazed higher and higher as the Balbo armada covered its final...
...busy to grow old!" he has said. When his daughter Edda, Countess Ciano di Cortellazzo, recently returned from Shanghai where her husband was Italian Minister, photographs of her baby son Fabbrizio were barred from Italian newspapers which were further forbidden to mention Il Duce as a grandfather...
...last week the Dictator joined Count & Countess Ciano at the Adriatic sea resort of Riccione. On the beach Bambino Fabbrizio patted with his pink palms Grandpa Mussolini's suntanned pate. Later they drove to Il Duce's estate near Predappio where he was born, for a celebration in which only neighboring villagers took part. A few old friends brought simple presents. Italian editors knew better than to mention what Benito Mussolini would like to conceal, that this was his 50th birthday...
...statesmen exchanged the draft text of an Austro-Hungarian-Italian trade treaty which may prove of utmost impor tance. It is no secret that Il Duce opposes Adolf Hitler's efforts to draw Austria into union with Germany-which would mean that Italy would face on her northern frontier not puny Austria but the potent German Reich. According to the draft text exchanged in Rome last week Italy is ready to agree to increase her purchases from Austria and Hungary and, over a period of years, to buy from them more than they sell...