Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short. Admittedly a French-British "naval demonstration" in the Mediterranean was under way and blunt notice was expected to be served on Italy that any attempt to attack Greece and especially to take Corfu, the Greek island at the Adriatic's mouth, would mean war. In 1923 Dictator Mussolini himself seized Corfu, left only after extensive diplomatic maneuvering by Britain and France...
Vanishing Faith. The neat notion that Dictator Mussolini could be bought or wooed away from his alliance with Adolf Hitler all but vanished last week, and with it went the last shreds of trust in II Duce's words. Of all Prime Minister Chamberlain's dubious achievements in foreign policy, he was proudest of the Anglo-Italian Treaty "guaranteeing" the status quo of the Mediterranean. In January Dictator Mussolini had personally promised Mr. Chamberlain that he had no intention of changing that status quo. Last week Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano gravely assured British Ambassador Lord Perth...
...that: 1) Italians were showing their undying love for the Albanians; 2) King Zog, heretofore an unusually obliging Italian puppet, had recently shown ingratitude; 3) King Zog had been hoarding Italian loans meant to develop the country for his own private uses; 4) Prominent Albanians had pleaded with Dictator Mussolini to come over and straighten things out. Of all the Italian explanations, the best was that Rome had a "sacred right" there because Albania was subdued by Romans in 229 B.C. So, for that matter, was Britain...
Cheap. For months Dictator Mussolini has eyed well-armed French Tunisia, has made passes at French Somaliland, has shouted for a share in the Suez Canal. He got nowhere while Partner Hitler snatched territory right & left. In Albania he got a cheap victory; he also gave a ringing answer to Britain's anti-aggression moves and served notice that Rome and Berlin were still on the offensive...
Nicolas Socrates Politis, the Greek minister to France, reported that a "state of gravest anxiety" had descended on Greece, but Greek Dictator John Metaxas had no inclination to be the first to stick his neck out at the onrushing aggressors. Dictator Mussolini might next decide that Greece constituted a "grave menace" to Italian rights. Instead, Dictator Metaxas jubilantly announced that Greek "independence and integrity are absolutely assured," but failed to say whether Britain or Italy had assured them. Dictator Metaxas hinted that he would not oppose British occupation of Corfu, but that he would...