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  • Mr. Cragg's work appears to be totally abstract, but then you are suddenly reminded of Italian post-Futurist sculpture—for example, of Renato Bertelli's "Continuous Profile of Mussolini" 1933, in which Il Duce's profile is rotated 360 degrees, so that it seems to be a machine-part, rather than a portrait head.

    An Explosion of Visual Arts Paul Levy 2011

  • Gandhi and Mussolini got on well when they met in December 1931, with the Great Soul praising the Duce's "service to the poor, his opposition to super-urbanization, his efforts to bring about a coordination between Capital and Labour, his passionate love for his people."

    Among the Hagiographers Andrew Roberts 2011

  • Il Duce's campaign worker's remarks are just on example of the daily barrages of hate fear and suspicion aimed at Muslims and Islam by people who love being "PATRIOTIC" but are really lazy, ignorant bigots.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Rudy Surrogate: "I Don't Subscribe To The Principle That There Are Good Muslims And Bad Muslims" 2009

  • And they included such key people as Rudolph Rahn, the German ambassador to Mussolini's rump state established in northern Italy after the Duce's ouster from Rome; Eitel Möllhausen, Rahn's deputy in Rome; Albrecht von Kessel, deputy to Ernst von Weizsäcker, German ambassador to the Vatican; and SS Colonel Eugen Dollmann, Wolff's liaison with Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, the supreme military commander in Italy.

    'Hitler's Secret Plot' Kurzman, Dan 2008

  • The last times Congress used its sole power were on December 8, 1941 after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and on December 11 after Germany and Italy declared war on America because their Axis Power obligations required them to do it and Hitler's and "Il Duce's" imperial eyes were bigger than their realpolitik stomachs.

    A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic 2007

  • The last times Congress used its sole power were on December 8, 1941 after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and on December 11 after Germany and Italy declared war on America because their Axis Power obligations required them to do it and Hitler's and "Il Duce's" imperial eyes were bigger than their realpolitik stomachs.

    A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic 2007

  • His father, one of Mussolini's entourage, was executed on the spot, along with his aunt who asked to share Il Duce's fate.

    On The Trail Of Il Duce 2007

  • Using contacts cultivated by German agents well established within the Italian hierarchy, Skorzeny learned of Il Duce's whereabouts and of his subsequent transfer to the Gran Sasso skiing area of Apennine Mountains.

    The Long History of American Treachery 2006

  • The first part of the Duce's ultimatum arrived last, and I did not know exactly what was transpiring until five o'clock in the morning.

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

  • So that noble and purifying gesture of hanging the Duce's body upside down has not had, after all, the desired effect?

    'The Memory of Justice': An Exchange Brombert, Victor 1977

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