Word: duce
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...arrest you if you do,' retorted the Duce...
...request Il Duce frowned. Frowned also the perpetually lowering busts of the chief Roman Emperors which stand on pedestals about the new Caesar's office. The citizens of Caltagirone shuffled uneasily, prepared to bow and scuttle...
...purpose of increasing the pressure of already teeming Italians upon their frontiers. Does this mean that he envisions a war of conquest for new territory? Last week U. S. newsgatherers asked him this question as tactfully as they could. Instead of returning them a glare for their pains, II Duce, ruddy with health and vigor, seemingly in the best of humors, sketched his professed idea of how Italy is to expand without fighting. Said...
...word: II Duce proposes to increase the might of Italy until other powers peacefully present her with colonies...
...cities. General Balbo, at present all but shelved as Under Secretary of Aviation, was once the Commander-in-Chief of the Fascist militia, and built up in that capacity a strong Republican following at Bologna. Reputedly he was shelved when he envisioned himself as the eventual successor of II Duce. Forces allied with him may have been active last week in the World's "mysterious" plot...