Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whenever a man high in Fascist favor dies, the procedure of His Excellency Benito Mussolini is the same. Dressed in braided morning coat and black silk Fascist shirt, he marches into the presence of the dead, stands stone still at Fascist salute for two full minutes, then turns on his heel, departs. His Excellency behaved thus a little over a year ago on the death of Marshal Luigi Cadorna, Italy's Wartime Commander-in-Chief, disastrously defeated at the battle of Caporetto (1917). Last week he gave his mortuary salute again at the bier of Minister of Public Works...
...actual funeral last week the King's wreath, if it lay upon the coffin, was completely obscured by a floral tribute 18¾ feet in circumference, inscribed only with the two words in giant capitals BENITO MUSSOLINI. To make up for the King's oblivion there walked beside Il Duce in the funeral procession a figure never before seen at a Fascist function, sleek white-bearded Johann Schober, Chancellor of Austria...
...times more positively. He was also able to convince Italy that he had the silent backing of Britain and the U. S. Defeated in the first round, Signor Grandi withdrew his demand that ratios and total tonnages come first on the agenda, but saved the face of Signor Mussolini by a voluble oration to the effect that Italy "reserves" these points and will not join in any agreement reached by the conference until they have been settled...
Often has the government of stern Dictator Benito Mussolini demanded stiff sums from Italian taxpayers. But last week // Duce was in relenting mood, perhaps because a neighboring dictator had just fallen...
...tined for subscribers in Italy will be .quietly destroyed by Il Duce's police. Newest thing in Italian journalism is a 16-page tabloid sheetlet published in a secret place, written by persons unknown, furtively distributed throughout Rome. Its name : Loud Speaker. Its object : to attack Dictator Benito Mussolini with humor, malice, intimate information, startling lies, as he has seldom before been attacked. Fascist officials have sharp orders to apprehend and silence Loud Speaker's perpetrators without delay or mercy, for ridicule is the one weapon no dictatorship can long withstand. Roman gossips, well aware of the breach...