Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that's not the real purpose of this letter. I simply want to give you a chance to chuckle with me over the humor of having Mr. Mussolini cast himself in the role of "mediator," and how reminiscent it is of the old story about the three Scotchmen in church: when they were confronted with the collection plate only a few pews away and getting closer, one of them, with great presence of mind, fainted, and the other two carried...
...been lost, some ?500,000,000 or more. In case of war German guns already installed within range of Gibraltar might have cut the British lifeline there, and Italy might have used her navy & air force to chop up the same lifeline at Suez and in the Mediterranean, although Mussolini & Franco might have done what Italy did in 1915, change sides for a fancy price to join Britain & France...
...Mussolini, who has the often Jewish name of Rachel, is not a Jewess, but even if she were the fact that Mr. Mussolini fought in the World War would thus entitle her and his children to exemption under the new decree. Similarly, since the Fascist Party was founded as an organization of World War veterans, nearly every Jewish "old comrade" of the Dictator is now exempt from antiSemitism, as are several high Jewish officers in the Italian fighting forces, together with every Italian Jew who was sufficiently pro-Fascist to join the Party as late as two years after...
...selective principle is a novelty in Mussolini antiSemitism, but the Fascist Grand Council went on to issue decrees revealing something different, namely that 11 Duce-quite apart from Jewish questions-wishes to fire Italians with the concept of the "Italian race." Reason: He believes Italians can never be successful Empire builders unless they feel as superior as the most superior Briton feels...
...Chvalkovsky has busied himself getting on the best personal terms with Herr Hitler and with Signor Mussolini, who is said to have once sent him this message in Rome: "Come over and see me, I am tired of talking to people who say 'Yes'." Dr. Chvalkovsky last week became the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, will handle many cards of a new deal for his country. He at once left for Berlin, where last week the British-French-Czechoslovak-German-Italian commission set up at Munich was drawing the new Czecho-slovak-German frontier while German troops continued to enter...