Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, faced with a report from Generalissimo Franco that additional support was needed to quash the Leftists, pugnacious Premier Mussolini blurted out in a speech at Genoa that he could not guarantee success for the French-Italian conversations because in "the war in Spain, we are on opposite sides of the barricades." Before agreement could be reached Italy demanded, it was reported: 1) that France close her borders to Leftist supplies* and thus probably permit a Franco victory; 2) that France discard her military alliance with the Soviet Union. Possibly for bargaining purposes, he was also said to have...
Last week, pugnacious Premier Daladier struck back at Mussolini and behind each of his moves shrewd French observers could see the heavy hand of the French general staff. The French military clique, alarmed at the reports of German batteries emplaced in the Pyrenees along the Spanish frontier, German air bases at Burgos and Vitoria, and Italian occupation of Majorca, has now become more concerned about keeping open the frontiers to Leftist Spain than French Leftist workers...
...newspapermen whom he called to his office, Premier Daladier explained that "France is occupied with looking everywhere and with everybody for a settlement, which, however, demands loyalty, reciprocity and parallel action.'' Thus indirectly he tossed on Signer Mussolini the blame for the impasse of the friendship talks. "However." continued the Premier, "France will persist in proving her close union, her calm self-possession. She can do it because she is strong. Her will for peace is her first guarantee, her strength is her supreme guarantee. No matter what the circumstances, France is fully capable of assuring the inviolability...
...week. There Britain will propose that France close her Pyrenees frontier to supplies for a 30-day period, while the committee reaches an agreement on the withdrawal of foreign fighters from both sides. Last week France, anxious to stay on the right side of Britain and thus prevent Dictator Mussolini from driving his desired wedge between France and Great Britain, let it be known that she would accept the British proposals. This temporarily stalled off things, giving Britain another week to hope that a solution to the dilemma might come from the Spanish battlefields...
...triple alliance between Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Premier Mussolini and General Franco is widely advertised and exalted by Rightist propaganda. Portraits of the three dictators appear on postcards. Every hotel this traveler has seen in Rightist Spain displays German. Italian and Rightist flags together," Callender wrote. "Mussolini's face, framed in a tin hat. glowers from the walls. Hitler's visage and book are shown in every town. . . . The Franco press, which uses foreign news selected by the German official news bureau, publishes nothing unfavorable to Hitler and Mussolini...