Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Chamber of Deputies served notice on Dictator Benito Mussolini that he had just as well give up any idea of getting French territory. It passed unanimously a resolution which: 1) declared the French Empire indivisible; 2) placed it under the same protection as continental France; 3) asserted that it could not be "transmitted, delegated or shared...
...pictured as an "enemy of peace," "AntiFascist No. 1." Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels sicked the entire German press on the President, but nothing out of Germany last week compared in vitriol, scorn, ridicule and invective to what was being written in Italy. There, Virginio Gayda, Dictator Benito Mussolini's journalistic mouthpiece, declared in Giornale d'ltalia that the President's words were an "open provocation to war," that President Roosevelt "himself plans and welcomes armed conflict." Since the U. S. frontiers are now the Rhine, Signor Gayda said, Italy's and Germany...
...this was good news to France, the Spanish news that came from Italy was decidedly bad. Dictator Benito Mussolini has often promised that once Generalissimo Franco has his victory he would retire his troops from Spain. Last week, however, Virginio Gayda, Dictator Mussolini's journalistic spokesman, revealed that Italy has a far different kind of "victory" in mind than have France and Great Britain. What Italy meant by "victory," Signor Gayda cagily explained, was not only a "military victory" but "full political victory." Said...
...feature-length films made in the world every year, Hollywood's annual 600 account for 73% of the playing time on the world's screens. U. S. domination of the world's cinema market gravely disturbs countries like Italy, where Mussolini has for years struggled to develop an industry which requires few raw materials besides talent and imagination. All Mussolini's efforts have been a flop. Italy has 2,700 theatres, which show 350 films a year. Through 1938, about 200 high-grade films were imported from the U. S. and about 50 low-grade films...
...Manhattan 49,343 children were polled on the question of who are the most hated and most loved beings in the world. Most hated: 1) Hitler, 2) Mussolini, 3) The Devil. Most loved: 1) Franklin D. Roosevelt...