Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other European nations planned to forego Armistice Day exercises this week. Italy last week celebrated her World War victory over Austria-Hungary in her own Armistice Day (Nov. 4) ceremonies. The Prince of Piedmont, heir to the throne, representing the House of Savoy, and Premier Benito Mussolini, representing the Fascist Party, saluted and knelt together before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the foot of the huge Vittorio Emanuele II monument in Rome...
...dove out of his hat addressing a session of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union this week (an unlikely possibility), the last phase of the peace drive petered to a close last week at Castel Gandolfo, Italy. One after the other the world's Big Men-Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt, Chamberlain-had reneged, bungled, excused or disqualified themselves from the job of proposing the one Big Plan the world had spent two months hoping for-a Peace Plan...
...shut any building merely suspected of harboring "Communists," which term he defined broadly. He made himself ridiculous by cutting his own salary, then restoring the cut; by decreeing French to be Quebec's official language, then rescinding the decree. Because he used Hitler's theories of racism, Mussolini's system of corporatist trade-union laws, and Huey Long's finger-wagging, roughshod political tactics, he was called a Fascist...
ROME--Premier Benito Mussolini today carried out the most drastic shake-up of his cabinet, party and highest military leaders which Fascism has seen in a surprise move interpreted as an effort to strengthen Italy's neutrality...
...London, Mussolini's action was regarded as eliminating pro-German elements in the high ranks of Fascism, because several of the 10 men removed today have been regarded as staunch supporters of close collaboration with Fuchrer Adolf Hitler...