Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, therefore, Orator Mussolini last week appeared before the Italian Chamber, and two days later in Berlin Orator Hitler appeared before the Reichstag. Mussolini declared that at 12 o'clock on March 7 he categorically warned a person in Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg's confidence against attempting to hold the Austrian plebiscite which Dr. Schuschnigg announced to take place March 13, canceled on March 11. "This contraption will explode in your hands,'' II Duce claimed last week he told Chancellor Schuschnigg. The Italian Dictator went on to tell the Italian people that Austrians had not thanked...
...admit with perfect equanimity that within a few years we will be only 50,000,000 whereas the Germans will be 80,000,000!" summed up Orator Mussolini, with a certain ambiguity for a peace speech. "But the Germans will not be on one but on ten frontiers, among which the Italian is the frontier between two friendly peoples-an intangible frontier...
...Reichstag about "the leader of that great Fascist country, who is such a great friend of mine!" Der Führer continued, "I should like to express to the great Italian statesman in the name of the German people, and my own name, our warmest thanks. We know what Mussolini's attitude has meant to Germany in these days. . . . Indissoluble friendship! The land and frontiers of this friend are to us inviolable. The Italian people know that the German nation supports my word...
Thus, in their own queerly truculent ways, Dictators Mussolini & Hitler last week formally sealed the Rome-Berlin Axis as an axis of mutual Italian-German peace...
Intuitive Adolf Hitler is feminine in never wanting a fight, but only victory. It would hardly have occurred to a masculine dictator, such as Mussolini, simply to ask the Czechoslovakian Government through intermediaries last week to tear up their military alliance with the Soviet Government, yet this was just what the Führer did, according to officials at Prague...