Word: duce
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...Duce, permit therefore that I return into the ranks to be alone a little with myself and with the proud consciousness of having served you and the cause of the revolution well...
...Duce ("Leader") of the Fascist Party, Benito Mussolini ripped open in his office one morning last week a letter from the next-most-important man in Italy, the secretary general of the one-&-only Party. Text...
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Patriotic Frenchmen are always vexed to remember that good Fascists insist on calling the hind side of Mont Blanc Monte Mussolini. Last week Il Duce entered geography again. As part of a really praiseworthy Fascist irrigation scheme 25,000 acres of Sardinian swamp land have been drained, restored to cultivation, settled with 2,000 immigrants from the mainland. Last week this new land was formally incorporated as a comune (township) invested by gracious permission of II Duce with the imposing title of Comune di Mussolinia di Sardegna...
...that date, 60 years ago, Italian troops entered Papal Rome, surrounded the Vatican, ended the temporal power of the Pontiff. Lest Italians lose a holiday the Cabinet will decree that instead of Sept. 20 they shall hereafter celebrate Feb. 11. On that date, 19 months ago, Il Duce restored the temporal power of the Papacy by signing the Lateran Treaties which established the Papal State (TIME...