Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there were a few signs that fear of immediate war was ebbing. In London war-insurance rates were cut. Belgium discharged one-third of the technical experts recently called to the colors at Antwerp. Generalissimo Francisco Franco demobilized 200,000 Fascist troops. Moreover, it was thought that Dictator Benito Mussolini would scarcely let his beloved daughter, Countess Edda Ciano, sail for Brazil if he were on the warpath...
Axis. If Fuhrer Hitler had any answer to this tough talk it was to announce a spectacular tour of inspection of Germany's defenses along the Rhine on the French and Belgian borders. Dictator Mussolini also inspected fortifications along the French border, stopping here & there to make a speech. At Turin he said that...
...matter for the future." He was equally vague about all other domestic issues, preferring to pursue a secretive, opportunist course toward economic recovery and political stability. Fixed elections and Sphinxlike silence on controversial problems kept him in power. In foreign policy he snuggled close to Benito Mussolini, managed to keep on passably good terms with Yugoslavia and Rumania, but detested Eduard Benes, the Czech Foreign Minister, who tried to get his scalp in the 1925 French banknote forgery scandal involving the Count's close associates. Count Bethlen's great dream was a bloc of "revisionist" States to overturn...
...time that Benito Mussolini's tens of thousands of soldiers were swaggering around the Spanish landscape during the recent civil war, Adolf Hitler's men modestly stayed in the background, playing a less conspicuous but no less effective role. II Duce sent not only airmen but infantrymen to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquer the stubborn Spanish Republicans. Spectacularly he took over the strategic island of Majorca as a bombing base, bombastically he bragged about the brave exploits of his legionnaires...
...London King George and Queen Elizabeth, before sailing for Canada (see p. 24), went to hear Maestro Arturo Toscanini conduct a Beethoven concert in Queen's Hall. During the intermission the King invited the Maestro to visit him in the royal box. The Maestro, who once shushed Mussolini for talking during a concert, sent word that a royal presentation would distract him too much...