Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...evening of May 9 last week, Adolf Hitler went to a cinema in Berlin, a sentimental musical film like The Student Prince. His No. 2 man, Field Marshal Hermann Goring, and Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels attended the premiere of Cavour, a play on which Benito Mussolini, onetime journalist, collaborated. Italy's dictator promised his royalty for the first evening, and half of all his subsequent royalties, to the German Red Cross. Field Marshal Goring arrived late, which made his presence, in resplendent white uniform, the more conspicuous...
...time was coming, if it were not already at hand, for Benito Mussolini to nudge his titular partner's elbow with proffered aid (see p. 31). If the war continued at its last week's pace and direction, he might have to bestir himself in order to give his partnership any appearance of usefulness or sincerity...
...counted more that he is a strong Roman Catholic who has the earnest sympathy of Pope Pius XII; that his sister, Marie-Jose, married Crown Prince Umberto of Italy-possible checkrein to keep Benito Mussolini from jumping in on Hitler's side; that his late wife was the King of Sweden's popular niece, which is one more tug at Sweden's fearful heart; that Franklin Roosevelt called himself Leopold's "old friend" and sent a message saying the U. S. people were shocked and angry. Now it mattered that King Leopold retained Lieut. General Henri...
While the Fascist Party systematically tried to stir up anti-British feeling and crowds of students demonstrated in almost every Italian city, officially Italy did nothing. At a mass meeting in the Piazza Venezia to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Italian Empire, Benito Mussolini told a none too enthusiastic crowd: "After my speeches you must accustom yourself to my silence. Only facts will break...
...cigaret case bore the autographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Mussolini, Hitler, Lloyd George, etc. Gandhi signed it when he promised to carry no more cigarets therein...