Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan has resented the fact that the seasoned veteran, General von Falkenhausen, German chief of staff of the Turkish Armies during the World War, was advising the stubborn if not wholly successful Chinese military strategists. Japan is an anti-Communist ally of Adolf Hitler's Germany and Benito Mussolini's Italy. She felt that Germans should not aid China, well knowing that the Germans constituted to a considerable extent the brains of the Chinese Army. Two months ago Germany obliged her Far Eastern ally by recalling the commission. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek showed strong reluctance to release...
Thousands of blackshirted Fascists and cheering farmers tramped into a freshly cut wheat field near Aprilia one day last week to hear Premier Benito Mussolini officially open Italy's harvest season. Bustling up to Aprilia, one of the towns built on land reclaimed from the Pontine Marshes, in his automobile, Il Duce stripped to the waist, clambered atop a threshing machine. There he proceeded to blast away at early-spring predictions by observers in the U. S., Britain and France that Italy's vital wheat crop would fall far below normal this year. Folding his brawny arms across...
...Grain," the drive to make Italy independent of foreign wheat imports. Due to years of intensified cultivation and reclamation of some 6,600,000 acres of swampland, Italian farms last year produced about 300,000,000 bushels, 20,000,000 more than the nor mal national need which was Mussolini's goal. The coldest, wettest winter since the turn of the Century, followed by a prolonged spring drought led to anticipation that this year's crop would fall to 220,000,000 bushels. Recent rains came in the nick of time and it is now predicted that...
...wheat problem, however, is only one of Premier Mussolini's many headaches. Italian gold reserves, drained by the Ethiopian campaign, have fallen to $212,000,000. Italy's adverse trade balance of $300,000,000 last year was the highest since 1930. This year's is still mounting. Exports have not fallen off materially, but the value of the lira has declined and as a consequence Italy has to pay more for the raw materials, such as coal, oil, which she cannot get at home. On the surface, her industry is prosperous. Heavy industry is making high...
Thus, although Italy has recently scorned rumors that she is in the market for foreign credits, the thing Mussolini needs most is a headache powder in the form of a big foreign loan. Most likely place to get it is in London and observers believe that when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sees his cherished Anglo-Italian pact go into effect with the withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain, the British pocketbook will be invitingly opened...