Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Considerable gloom tempered the Christmas festivities of Fascist officials last week. II Duce had just announced in the Senate that the budget for the first five months of fiscal 1930-31 showed a deficit of $43,700,000. Salaries of all state employes from II Duce down to the humblest postman had already just been cut 12%. To offset this 43-million loss further it was announced that $15,000,000 will be lopped from the budgets of all ministries -that is, from all but the war budget. The Italian Army will cost $156,000,000 next year; the navy...
...Tobacco, Salt, Telephone and Telegraph Monopolies, doctors & nurses in the State Monopolies, school teachers & professors, personnel of the Army, Navy, Air Force and even of the National (Fascist) Militia, the Dictator's personal last line of defense. Explaining himself to the people of Italy with characteristic frankness, Il Duce gave three main reasons for what he has done...
...reducing at one staggering stroke the earnings of 60% of the nation, Il Duce believes that he can force the sellers of manufactured goods and foodstuffs to cut their prices drastically, thus hammering down the cost of living to the lowered level of wages. Thus far, in the opinion of the Dictator, profiteering tradesmen have not cut their retail prices nearly enough to bring these into line with the staggering decline in wholesale raw product prices throughout the world...
Exuberantly Il Duce concluded: "By the year 1950 Italy will be the only country of young people in Europe, while the rest of Europe will be wrinkled and decrepit. People will come from over the frontier to see the phenomenon of this blooming Spring of the Italian people...
Significance. Most German papers viewed with suspicion Il Duce's stand for revision of the Peace Treaties?the thing Germany most wants?because he uttered in the same breath a rallying cry to Adolf Hitler's German Fascists. Said Berlin's Socialist Vorw?...