Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...slums and the sharecroppers and the unemployed. President Roosevelt smelled it, felt himself powerless in the face of passive reactionary opposition, and interested the nation in foreign affairs. The effect was good. Americans forgot their own disordered houses in their scurry to see the other fellow's mess. Mussolini and Hitler resorted to the same stunt when they felt themselves powerless. A militarist nation lasts for a few years and dies; the spirit of religion lives...
Italy tried to retrieve her shattered face by claiming, belatedly, that during Sir Andrew's sweep of the Mediterranean, an Italian submarine thrice torpedoed one of his battleships of the Ramillies class. Benito Mussolini blustered that only three ships had been hit at Taranto. only one badly damaged. London laughed. Her agents told her that a military court was sitting in Rome to discover who had let Taranto happen...
...Named for II Duce Mussolini's daughter...
Having led with his chin, Benito Mussolini stuck it farther out than ever this week and defiantly broadcast to the world: "Greece is a tricky enemy. . . . Their hate is profound and incurable...
Last June 10, at Charlottesville, Va., President Roosevelt slapped Benito Mussolini with his "Stab-in-the-Back" remark. Last week Franklin Roosevelt & Co. jolted Mussolini again. Mexican officials said they acted on a tip from the U. S. State Department when at a border station they pounced on the Italian Legation pouch en route from Washington to Mexico City and broke its seals in violation of the diplomatic immunity of the Italian courier...