Word: duce
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...queer, cackling laugh for his colleagues; 2) Monsieur Aristide Briand (France), tousled and heavy eyed as a tomcat at dawn; 3) Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany), plump, bald, rubicund, and yet with a trig, indefinable air of smartness; 4)Signor Vittorio Scialoja (Italy), representing with compact, bustling decisiveness the great Duce; 5) Baron Adachi (Japan), frail, insignificant in stature, piping voiced, yet with a winning and decisive mien...
...Later Il Duce informs the Chamber of Deputies, characteristically, that "Marshal Diaz's whole life might be summed up in the one word 'duty.' " As everyone knows, that is the one word which Il Duce never tires of dinning into weary Italian noodles...
This measure has been denounced as abrogating democratic suffrage and placing the nomination of candidates in the hands of a Fascist oligarchy topped by Il Duce. He met these charges last week, thus...
...alternative presented by Il Duce is, of course, to replace the "intriguers" and "demagogues" by his own "disciplined" Fascisti. Once the premise is admitted that the latter are preferable to the former, the rest of the argument follows as a logical matter of course...
...postulating his premise, publicly once and for all, Il Duce stood forth, last week, as the world's one supremely courageous enemy of democracy. He enlarged upon his thesis crisply and smashingly, thus: "All existing electoral systems neglect the reality of life which is that, isolated, individuals do not exist or have negligible value. Society is not merely a conglomeration of men. . . . Fascismo wishes to create a regime of authority with a strong Government possessing ample powers but founded on the masses and keeping close to the masses. . . . All who have Fascismo at heart wish to create a regime...