Mussolini biography facts on samuel
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Mussolini wasn’t so bad. He started out as a socialist, after all, didn’t he? And as director of the party’s newspaper, Avanti!, he was firm in his opposition to Italy entering the First World War, at least until his sudden change of heart of , which may or may not have been facilitated by sums of money secretly paid to him by the French to promote the cause of intervention. As director of the newly founded Popolo d’Italia, following his utvisning from the Socialist Party, Mussolini became one of the most influential pro-war voices in the country, but seeing as the eventual intervention cost Italy a mere lives, this wasn’t so bad.
After the war, Mussolini organised a great number of disbanded veterans – to whom the state, brought to its knees by the conflict that he had so ardently advocated, could offer no prospects – into armed squads and employed them in a campaign of intimidation and violence against socialists and communists, unionists and anarchists, with the direct supp
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Death of Benito Mussolini
death of Italian fascist dictator
45°58′52″N9°12′12″E / °N °E / ; Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the by of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April , in the final days of World War II in Europe. The generally accepted utgåva of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan. However, since the end of the war, the circumstances of Mussolini's death, and the identity of his executioner, have been subjects of continuing dispute and controversy in Italy.
In , Mussolini took his country into World War II on the side of Nazi Germany, but was soon met with military failure. bygd the autumn of , he was reduced to being the leader of a German puppet state in northern Italy, and was faced with the Allied advance from the south, and an increasingly violent internal conflict with the partisans. In April , with the Allies break
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Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
British politician (–)
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (24 February – 7 May ), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a senior British Conservative politician who served in various Cabinet posts in the Conservative and National governments of the s and s.[1]
Hoare was Secretary of State for Air during most of the s. As Secretary of State for India in the early s, he authored the Government of India Act , which granted self-government at a provincial level to India. He was most famous for serving as Foreign Secretary in , when he authored the Hoare–Laval Pact with French Prime MinisterPierre Laval. This partially recognised the Italian conquest of Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia) and Hoare was forced to resign by the ensuing public outcry. In he returned to the Cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty, then served as Home Secretary from to and was again briefly Secretary of State for Air in He was seen as a lea