Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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President Roosevelt merely replied that he was quoting the press back at the newsmen. The implication that Hitler and Mussolini wanted him out-first advanced by Henry Wallace, offered last week by Governor Lehman-now had more than tacit sanction of the President himself. Wallace had been reproved by many people and Lehman's repetition by still more (said Oswald Garrison Villard, "It seems to me that your declaration that a vote for Willkie will be a vote for Hitler . . . touches the low-water mark of unfair, unjust and intolerable partisanship . . . playing upon passions and prejudices which you ought...
ROME--Sharp warnings to Jugoslavia to swing into line with the Rome-Berlin Axis were issued today as Premier Benito Mussolini watched his troops stage a sham battle with Jive shells close to the Jugoslav frontier...
Yesterday the mouthpiece newspaper of Benito Mussolini, Popolo d'Italia, came out with what might be termed a one-for-you-two-for-me proposal. This organ of the Axis stated that if the United States declared war on Japan, the war machines of Germany and Italy would be pointed our way. The paper suggested that we should grab off a few countries, or possessions of other countries, instead of meddling in the affairs of poor old Japan, who is only looking out for her people by taking over a few small islands in the Pacific and all of China...
...pounded troop concentrations along the coast. Further Italian advances along the coastal defile between the sea and the Libyan plateau would have to be carried on under the muzzles of the British Fleet unless the numerically and mechanically superior Italian Air Force, including Squadron Leaders Bruno and Vittorio Mussolini, could drive the Fleet to cover...
...playwright, he liked to keep a diary, he did not like grand opera. What he thought about Italy's going to war he did not tell her. She tried to get it out of him by observing what a pity it would be if all the nice buildings Mussolini had built "became prematurely ruins. It would be so much nicer to have the excavating done by the archaeologists of 2042." He just said: "The kind of ruins you get after a modern war wouldn't be worth excavating...