Later on, Fascist Italy could also be considered as a " constitutional monarchy " of a kind, in the sense that there was a king as the titular head of state while actual power was held by Benito Mussolini under a constitution.

Dollfuss also exchanged ' Secret Letters ' with Benito Mussolini about ways to guarantee Austrian independence.

He wrote to a friend that he supported Benito Mussolini at first ; Mussolini also made Puccini a senator shortly before the latter's death.

Nonetheless, his tiny principality was tormented by domestic conflict partly as a result of Louis ' indecisiveness, and also because the majority of the population was of Italian descent ; many of them supported the fascist regime of Italy's Benito Mussolini.

He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Italy during the rule of Benito Mussolini.

In its early years the party was stronger in Northern Italy, and especially in eastern Lombardy and Veneto, due to the strong Catholic roots of that areas, than in the South, where the Liberal establishment that had governed Italy for decades before the rise of Benito Mussolini had still a grip on voters, as also the Monarchists and the Front of the Ordinary Man did.

Although the Carabinieri assisted in the suppression of opposition during the rule of Benito Mussolini, they were also responsible for his downfall and many units were disbanded by Nazi Germany, which resulted in large numbers of Carabinieri joining the Italian resistance movement.

The town of Ferrara was also the setting of the famous film The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Vittorio De Sica in ( 1970 ), that tells the vicissitudes of a rich Jewish family during the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini and World War II.

The city was also the site of one of the largest fascist mass rallies, with some 300, 000 people reportedly attending one Mussolini speech.

He also played well-known figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte in Waterloo ( 1970 ); Benito Mussolini in The Last Four Days ( 1974 ) and again in Lion of the Desert ( 1981 ); W. C. Fields in W. C. Fields and Me ( 1976 ); Pontius Pilate in Franco Zeffirelli's TV miniseries

Kung also visited Roosevelt and Mussolini in 1937.

However, Gentile and Mussolini also attacked certain reactionary policies, particularly monarchism and — more veiled — some aspects of Italian conservative Catholicism.

She is the founder and former leader of the national conservative political party Social Action ; from 2004 until 2008, Mussolini also served as Member of the European Parliament, and has since been a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament, for the ruling People of Freedom party.

Nonetheless, his tiny principality was tormented by domestic conflict partly as a result of Louis ' indecisiveness and also because the majority of the population was of Italian descent and they supported the fascist regime of Italy's Benito Mussolini.

He also openly identified as a fascist ; he admired Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler, saying at one point: " I am like Hitler.

They are being ruthless and most determined .” After the July 1934 Night of The Long Knives, in which the Nazis ruthlessly exterminated their internal dissidents, Reith wrote: “ I really admire the way Hitler has cleaned up what looked like an incipient revolt .” After Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Nazis in 1939 he wrote: “ Hitler continues his magnificent efficiency .” Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini .. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves.

Mussolini also founded the five cities destroyed by the battle.

The concepts that led to the splitting of the atom were developed by the scientists of many countries, but the conversion of these ideas into the reality of nuclear fission was accomplished in the United States in early 1940s, both by many Americans but also aided tremendously by the influx of European intellectuals fleeing the growing conflagration sparked by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Europe.

The Axeman killings are also referred to in the short story " Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz " by Poppy Z. Brite, published in 1997.

The phrase also figures in the early thought of Mussolini, looking as he was to define a Fascist path between the two alternatives of liberalism and bolshevism in post-Great war Italy.

From the 1980s she began to appear more regularly in films, including Enchanted April ( 1992 ), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination, Dennis the Menace ( 1993 ), a cameo in Last Action Hero ( also 1993 ), and Tea With Mussolini ( 1999 ).

Thus, in the inaugural issue of The American Review, Collins praised Benito Mussolini for creating an ethical state which protected workers and small businesses and also wrote favorably of the election of Adolf Hitler to Chancellor of Germany whose new program, Collins believed, heralded the end of the Communist threat.

Di Canio has also expressed admiration for Mussolini.

On February 10, 1935 Mussolini mobilized two divisions.

In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of Benito Mussolini as part of the Axis Powers ' war effort.

Mussolini and the Italian Fascists saw Albania as a historical part of the Roman Empire, and the occupation was intended to fulfill Mussolini's dream of creating an Italian Empire.

Mussolini planned to invade Greece and other countries like Yugoslavia in the area to give Italy territorial control of most of the Mediterranean Sea coastline, as part of the Fascists objective of creating the objective of Mare Nostrum (" Our Sea ") in which Italy would dominate the Mediterranean.

* 4 Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall ( 1978 ) ( This was announced as the fourth part of his " increasingly misnamed " trilogy.

The classic definition of Italian Fascism applies to the latter part of the history of the movement in power, when Italy was firmly under the leadership of Benito Mussolini.

In 1938 Benito Mussolini built a protective building for the Altar, as it had been reconstructed by Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo, near the Mausoleum of Augustus ( moving the Altar in the process ) as part of his attempt to create an ancient Roman " theme park " to glorify Fascist Italy.

Prominent examples include the Ancient Assyrian Empire, the Greek city state of Sparta, the Roman Empire, the Aztec nation, the Kingdom of Prussia, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( which would later become part of the Soviet Union ), the Italian Colonial Empire during the reign of Benito Mussolini, Nazi Germany and American Imperialism.

Mussolini declared King Victor Emmanuel to be the Emperor of Ethiopia, and Ethiopia became part of the Italian Empire.

Tea with Mussolini, a 1999 drama about the plight of English and American expatriate women in Italy during World War II, was filmed in part at San Gimignano.

Early writers noted what Benito Mussolini was able to do with the power of the state on his side, a part of a vindication of the SPGB's approach of the workers seizing control of the state.

Pavolini was integrated to the Republic's administration under Mussolini, and was immediately promoted head of the successor of the PNF, the Republican Fascist Party ( PFR ) ( the only person to occupy that post ); he took part in the drafting of major documents, including the Verona manifesto that called for the execution of former Grand Council of Fascism members who had voted against Mussolini in April, and was behind the creation of the Black Brigades.

Germany's wartime ally Italy under the rule of Benito Mussolini desired the Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland as part of its irredentist claims in Europe, particularly the Swiss canton of Ticino.

It was at Dongo on Lake Como on 28th April 1945 and whilst being escorted by the Garibaldi Brigade Partisans that Mussolini and his mistress Claretta Petacci were executed ; the extent ( if any ) to which Longo took part in the killings has been the subject of dispute by historians.

Mussolini had laid claims to Kenya, but Hitler planned the dissection of the colony, with the southern part and the capital Nairobi forming a territory of the German Mittelafrika.

From 1941 to 1943 during World War II, after Benito Mussolini had annexed the territories around Kotor to the Kingdom of Italy, Perasto returned under the influence of Venice and the area was part of the Italian Governorship of Dalmatia ( it was called " Provincia di Cattaro ").

Cornwell recounts that Eugenio Pacelli's brother, Francesco, successfully negotiated a concordat with Mussolini as part of an agreement known as the Lateran Treaty.

Mussolini decided to merge what remained of Social Action into the new party and was elected in the 2008 general election as part of it.

During the early 20th century, Mussolini restored the Imperial Fora as part of his campaign to evoke and emulate the past glories of Ancient Rome.

: Everything points to the fact that Mussolini lately saw the handwriting on the wall and that, in desperation, he laid his case before Hitler last Monday 19 after sensing the growing hostility toward him and Fascism on the part of the Italian people and the crown.

The party took part to the governments of Benito Mussolini until July 1924 as other liberal groups and was later disbanded.