Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition, while under a dictatorship only discontent. The Fascist party is the only lawful political organization, and opposition is treason. The reasons for discontent are two-told First, there has been an economic crisis in Italy for the last four years. Second, the people are getting tired of Mussolini...
...Mussolini has lost much ground in Italy during the last four years, and his popularity is rapidly declining," declared Professor Gaetano Salvemini, formerly of the University of Florence, and recently appointed lecturer in the Department of History at Harvard, in a recent interview...
Such was far from the case. Chancellor Schober did sign a treaty with Prime Minister Mussolini last week, strictly a treaty of friendship and arbitration. He also visited Pope Pius and received the Grand Cordon of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus from King Vittorio Emanuele. His presence in Rome was to thank the Italian Government for lifting the ban on Italian loans to Austria, for Italy's help at The Hague Conference in proving Aus- tria's inability to pay War reparations. It is no secret that both of these favors came in return for Austria...
...Greatest of living Icelandic statesmen is Jonas Jonsson, "The Mussolini of the North," who is Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastics and of course a "literary man." Like Il Duce he is said to have a jealous eye upon the Crown, not with a view to seizing it for himself but with intent to make Iceland a republic. Today the King of Iceland is also King Christian X of Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine...
Briand and Borah; Clémenceau, Chesterton and Clemens; Stresemann and Stimson; Poincare and Pershing; Masaryk, Mussolini, MacDonald and Mellon ?they were all of them to be seen last week in the library of Manhattan's fastidious Pynson Printers, most of them in chalk, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln in lithograph. Had it not been withdrawn for reproduction on the cover of this issue of TIME, the crayon likeness of Charles Evans Hughes would also have appeared...