Word: mussolinis
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...loss further it was announced that $15,000,000 will be lopped from the budgets of all ministries -that is, from all but the war budget. The Italian Army will cost $156,000,000 next year; the navy, $80.923,000; the air force, $40,000.000. Two days previously Signore Mussolini forewarned the Senate of the impending cut. "But," shouted Benito to the long-faced Senators, "are there any among you who think that in this moment, when everyone else is arming powerfully by bleeding the people, it would be just for Italy to neglect its elementary and indispensable defenses...
...salary-cropped Senators thought so, they did not say so. There of course had to be some goat to blame for this sizable deficit. Prime Minister Mussolini found a handy one in the U. S. The Wall Street crash of 1929, blamed for so much, was apparently responsible for Fascismo's troubles as well. Said...
...Among those who blame Wall Street is Benito Mussolini...
...Dictator Benito Mussolini has a wife, but neither the Italian Embassy nor the Prime Minister's office will divulge the place or date of his marriage, which antiFascists charge never took place...
...cinema theatres in Italy are supplied by U. S. products. Yet once Italy was powerful in the cinema. Italian-made Quo Vadis? started in 1913 a fashion for historical spectacles. Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio wrote and directed Cabria. But since 1916 native Italian cinemas have deteriorated. Premier Mussolini has his private theatre, equipped for talkies. For a while he banned all cinemas in foreign tongues. Later he changed this edict, permitting foreign talk if the picture was musical comedy or operetta...