Word: fascistes
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...morning, as he promenaded the Eternal City, it occurred to Lord Lloyd that he would call on Signer Mussolini. "Where," he inquired of a Fascist policeman, "is the villa of your Duce...
...policeman's eyes grew wide with alarm. Even the impeccable cravat and faultless morning clothes of Lord Lloyd did not dispel the Fascist's intuitive feeling that anyone who asked the whereabouts of Il Duce's villa must want to murder him. No taker of chances, the con stable arrested the British dictator of Egypt, hurried him to a police station...
...telephone. Calling the British Embassy he gave way to his feelings. Scandalized, the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald William Graham, sped in person to the police station, identified Lord Lloyd, swore that he was no potential assassin, and secured his release by a reluctant and still auspicious Fascist Police Captain. Foreigners in Italy less potent than...
...Major Mario de Bernardi, the "Flying Fascist," who won the Schneider Cup races (TIME, Nov. 22), came to the White House last week to receive the congratulations of President Coolidge. A racing automobile and a steamship had carried him to Washington from Norfolk, Va., after he had casually broken his own seaplane record with a new speed of 258.873 miles per hour...
...Bologna attempt upon his life (TIME, Nov. 8). Said Professor Verne, 36, croix de guerre: "Bologna was like a city of madmen. The wails were covered with mystic posters proclaiming 'God gave him to us; curses upon whoever touches him.' Every window held Mussolini's portrait. Fascist bands marched deliriously all night. . . . Mussolini arrived in a brilliant uniform with an aigrette a foot high on his head. The regular army and fascist battalions goose-stepped before him shouting the Fascist war cry, 'Eia, eia, eia, alala.* Mussolini was ushered in by the same war-cry when...