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Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in England and Clemenceau and Poincaré in France had been regular contributors and Mussolini soon became one. Our New York office suggested getting, since we could not have Hitler, who had turned us down, the number-two Nazi. This had led me to call Göring...
...Americans defied the mood that swept the United States after World War 1. Both the American and European governments ignored the Spanish Republic's plea for aid even though the newly born democracy was being challenged by the fascist front. Francisco Franco, backed with military support from Hitler and Mussolini, struggled to defeat the Spanish peasants as they fought to save their democracy. During the Spanish Civil War Hitler had his chance to test his newly created weapons and for the first time in history, civilian dwellings were bombed. In his painting filled with twisted images, "Guernica," Pablo Picasso captures...
...would "march" unless Prague yielded to all his demands, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain adr dressed the Empire and the U. S. by radio, declared Führer Hitler's demands "unreasonable." The next day, at a time of even greater tension he appealed to the Italian Premier Benito Mussolini to use his good offices with the Führer...
...enter the university. There is a bac given for each lycée track. The typical exam schedule involves ten hours of tests over a two-week period. All written exams are of the essay type (sample question: "Compare and contrast the roads to power of Hitler and Mussolini"), and most bacs culminate in an oral exam. To enter the grandes écoles, students must take another set of tests called concours, which generally demand an additional two years of preparation. The time is often well spent: if a student graduates from a grande école, he is virtually assured...
...coupled by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 1969; in Cairo. Hereditary leader of the Senussi sect of Islam, traditional rulers of what is now eastern Libya, he fled to Cairo a few years after the territory was occupied by Italy in World War I to lead the resistance against the Mussolini fascists. Idris' troops fought alongside the British Eighth Army in World War II, and in 1951, with British support, he was proclaimed monarch of the newly federated Libya. A strict Muslim who claimed descent from Muhammad, Idris ruled with benign autocracy, had no heirs (to his dismay) and became...