Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Second Munich. Less than 21 months ago Great Britain's Neville Chamberlain, France's Edouard Daladier, Italy's Benito Mussolini and Germany's Adolf Hitler met at Munich and signed away the integrity of Czecho-Slovakia. Since history turned on that 29th of September 1938, ten European nations have lost their independence. Proud and once dominant France was the eleventh to lie at the mercy of Europe's dictators, and history never recorded a supremer irony than Adolf Hitler's decision to settle the fate of France with Benito Mussolini at Munich...
March 18. Hitler and Mussolini confer at Brennero...
...republics of South America, which, like the U. S., won their independence from Europe by revolutions, are jealous of their freedom. Last week, unlike the U. S., they were wide-awake to the dangers that seemed to threaten it. Mussolini's cynical declaration of war had been all that was needed to stir Latin America...
...Lippmann, who shook a stern forefinger and warned: "President Vargas made it clear to us that if we permit the Axis to win in Europe, the Axis will not have to conquer what it covets in South America. . . . There will be dictators . . . who will ally themselves with Hitler and Mussolini. . . . Our problem, then, will not be how to defend this hemisphere against Europe. Our problem will be how to defend ourselves in this hemisphere...
Foreign influences are strong. Brazil has some 3,500,000 Italians and sons-of-Italians. Last year Edda Mussolini Ciano took a "health trip" to Brazil, where her chief host was Dom João de Orléans e Braganga, "heir" to the Brazilian throne and patron of the Integralistas, super-Fascist greenshirts whom Dictator Vargas has so far managed to suppress...