Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sees a fine front. There is no open evidence of constraint, repression, or fear. Whatever it may be worth, money flows freely. The people are well dressed, well fed, fairly well housed. At parades, reviews, unveilings, cornerstone Mayings, a, busy, eager nation is always on its toes to cheer Mussolini, the King, and the flag, even though every mail box is sealed tight with steel baffles when the two heads of the Empire visit their loyal Milano. Bombs and infernal machines have exploded in these boxes. For ten days preceding Hitler's arrival no parcels will be delivered...
Crown Prince Umberto obliged Dictator Benito Mussolini last week with a few personal appearances in the Italian Tyrol. Arriving at flag-bedecked. half-Austrian Bolzano (formerly Bozen), guarded by soldiers and Black Shirts, His Royal Highness inaugurated a public works program. He then visited Merano where he dedicated a monument to Italian Alpine troops. Meanwhile, his Belgian consort, Crown Princess Maria Jose, inspected welfare centres...
...passiveness toward the South Tyroleans has contrasted with his agitation for the Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia. To South-Tyrolean Anschluss agitation the Führer has lately turned a cold shoulder, has declared Italy's present frontiers inviolable, has let the word be passed around that Ally Mussolini should not be embarrassed by Nazi agitation for a German Tyrol...
...earth's smallest Republic, Dictator Benito Mussolini has usually had indulgent smiles. Respectful of San Marino's independence, II Duce has nevertheless insisted that the 32-square-mile midget nation, perched on a mountain top in northeastern Italy, should not be a refuge for Fascism's enemies. A few years ago, Benito the Builder obliged the Republic with a new winding electric railroad from Rimini to San Marino and a new boulevard down the middle of the nation to San Marino...
...five, devoted the entire front page of an elaborate extra edition to the occasion, peppered it with such headlines as Goring as a Father of a Family-A Day With Uncle Hermann. Because Field Marshal Goring's first-born is to be named Edda-same as Benito Mussolini's favorite daughter, the wife of Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano-and because the Cianos are great friends of the Gorings, wags cracked that the child had been born to the Berlin-Rome axis...