When Mussolini took power in Italy he turned with renewed interest to Albania.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

When, during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the League accused Italian soldiers of targeting Red Cross medical tents, Benito Mussolini responded that " the League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

When Mussolini learned of the warnings and the telegrams of sympathy, he took them as a personal affront and had his ambassador to the Vatican file an official protest, charging that Pius XII had taken sides against Italy's ally Germany.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July, Hitler and Mussolini supported the fascist and authoritarian Nationalist forces in their civil war against the Soviet-supported Spanish Republic.

When he was six years old, his mother died and he subsequently grew up under the auspices of the English expatriate community and was particularly involved with the so-called Scorpioni, who inspired his semi-autobiographical 1999 film Tea With Mussolini.

When directed to do so, Mussolini provided Germany with Italian citizens to work as forced laborers.

When Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini found out what Admiral Darlan intended to do, that is, cooperate with the Allies, they immediately ordered the occupation of Vichy France and reinforced the Afrika Korps.

When Benito Mussolini took office in 1921 the government debt was 93 billion lire, un-repayable in the short to medium term.

When Bordiga was arrested in February 1923 on a trumped-up charge by the new government of Benito Mussolini, he had to give up his post as member of the Central Committee of the PCd ’ I but, on his acquittal later that year, he decided not to reclaim it, thus implicitly accepting that he was now an oppositionist.

When leaked to the media in December, the Hoare-Laval Pact was widely denounced as appeasement to Mussolini.

When Time reviewed the latter, it noted several of Seldes ' works and said he " stuck out his tongue at Benito Mussolini ... thumbed his nose at U. S. journalism ... and uttered some hoarse Bronx cheers at the Roman Catholic Church.

When the Germans occupied the area and substituted the Italians, they maintained the borders created by Mussolini, but after World War II the Albanian borders were returned by the Allies to the pre-war status.

When Mussolini marched on Rome in October 1922, Giolitti was on vacation in France.

When Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war against France and Britain in June 1940, Italian forces became a potential threat to British supply routes in the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.

When the Italians under Benito Mussolini attacked the independent empire of Ethiopia, von Rosen joined a relief mission, flying food and supplies for the Red Cross.

When Mussolini learned that Prime Minister Luigi Facta had given Gabriele d ' Annunzio the mission to organize a large demonstration on 4 November 1922 to celebrate the national victory during the war, he decided on the March to accelerate the process and sidestep any possible competition.

When the government that made him Minister of Public Education, under Giovanni Giolitti, he was ousted from power by Benito Mussolini, being replaced by the fascist Giovanni Gentile as the new Minister, with whom Croce had earlier cooperated in philosophical polemic against positivism.

When Mussolini fell from power on 25 July 1943, Longo was released.

When Mussolini firmly established his power in January 1925, he appointed Cesare Mori as the Prefect of Palermo in October 1925 and granted him special powers to fight the Mafia.

When news came that the Allied Forces were being moved to Trieste, five American and five British mothers ( some from the original Foro Mussolini school ) got together and decided to form a school which should be undenominational and international, combining the best of the British and American systems.

When Mussolini left Milan on 25 April, heading north, it was assumed he was going to the Valtellina, but his intentions were never made clear-he told some people he would go to Bolzano, in the province of Bolzano, to join up with German forces.

When Mussolini declared war on Abyssinia with the intent of making Italy an empire ( Second Italo – Abyssinian War ), Montanelli immediately abandoned his collaboration with the United Press and became a voluntary conscript for this war.

When speaking about the reals, sometimes it means " all reals but a set of Lebesgue measure zero " ( formally, almost everywhere ).

When receiving diplomats — who formally represent the sovereign — the receiving head of state grants certain privileges and immunities to ensure they may effectively carry out their duties, on the understanding that these are provided on a reciprocal basis.

When war was formally declared a year later, most of the museum's paintings were sent there as well.

When the trial formally opened in early 1993, Honecker was released due to ill health and on 13 January of that year moved to Chile to live with his daughter Sonja, her Chilean husband Leo Yáñez, and their son Roberto.

When Lord Louis Mountbatten formally proposed the plan on 3 June 1947, Patel gave his approval and lobbied Nehru and other Congress leaders to accept the proposal.

When the idea was first formally proposed to the state ’ s legislators, all of whom were men, it was overwhelmingly resisted.

" When the Republic of South Africa ( Transvaal ) formally rejected the notion of British suzerainty as allegedly described by the peace treaty of 1881, Chamberlain and Balfour prompted Salisbury to initiate discussions with Portugal regarding Delagoa Bay.

When Roberts formally annexed the Transvaal on 3 September, the Salisbury ministry, emboldened by the apparent victory in South Africa, asked for the dissolution of Parliament, with an election set for October.

When the GNP & BR was formally opened on 15 December 1906, the line ran from the Great Northern Railway's station at to the District Railway's station at.

When Ohio became the first in the Northwest Territory to gain statehood in 1803, the state ’ s northern border claimed this important area, even though the boundaries of the Michigan Territory when it was formally organized in 1805 also included this area.

When a wizard nears death – which they know some time in advance – he formally passes on his staff to a newborn wizard.

When Nobles County was formally created by the Minnesota legislature on May 23, 1857, Gretchtown was brielfy designated as the county seat of Nobles County, a county at that time without any residents.

Change of Name: When the site was surveyed in December 1879, Airlie was formally rechristened DeForest.

When the town was incorporated in 1763, Governor Benning Wentworth formally recognized the long-used name of New Boston.

When William of Wykeham founded the College, he formally agreed to maintain the City Wall when he acquired the land on which to build the College.

When Valley View formally incorporated in 1980, it had 514 inhabitants and six businesses.

When Gen. Greene formally assumed command on December 3, 1780, Kościuszko's services were retained, employed as Greene's chief engineer.

When the jury found him not guilty, the public shouted their approval so loudly and for so long that it was another half an hour before the proceedings could be formally closed.

When Lenihan refused, Haughey formally advised President Hillery to dismiss Lenihan as Tánaiste, Minister for Defence and member of the cabinet, which the President as constitutionally required duly did.

When Parliament reconvened on January 14, 1766, the Rockingham ministry formally proposed repeal.

When none was forthcoming ( merely an ambiguous message from de Valera that could be interpreted as partially blaming McNeill for attending functions that ministers had been invited to ), he published his correspondence with de Valera, even though de Valera had formally advised him not to do so.

When McKinley led the delegation of Republican dignitaries sent to formally advise Harrison of his convention triumph, the President, angered over the " profusion of McKinley buttons, placards and streamers that littered path to victory ", had only a cold formal greeting for the Ohio governor.

When Rose returned for another tour months later, Bonham was formally invited by the singer to drum for his band, which gave him a regular income.

When Germany's assault on the Soviet Union began in June 1941, Finland remained formally neutral until Soviet air raids gave an expected reason to fulfill the invasion plans some days later.