Benito Mussolini

Abandoning her formerly held pacifist views, NCB supported Mussolini and the Fascists. In 1940 she presented Ezra Pound with a radio and a letter praising Lord Ha Ha 's pro-Nazi broadcasts for their exceptionally far-sweeping...

Barney's translator Anna Livia describes these memoirs as a combination of war commentary, political theory, and an account of daily life in Fascist Italy. Despite NCB 's insistence that she is apolitical, her loyalties clearly...

Back in England from a Europe distraught and obsessed between Hitler and Mussolini , with Stalin waiting in the wings,PB was disturbed at finding in Londoneasy nonchalance about Hitler's anti-semitism.

The BBC approached Bottome to write propaganda to help entice America into war because of the popularity of her novels in the United States. Her script uses Disney cartoon characters to depict the two...

The prime minister and foreign minister offered her another free holiday. She had already, however, travelled through High Albania with a pony-train (one of the most wonderful things, she wrote later, in a life full...

Closely following global events from the rise of Mussolini through the politics of Appeasement, and juxtaposing such movements against her historical knowledge, Bryher saw World War II both as infuriatingly predictable and as avoidable.

As momentum began building towards World War Two she seems to have felt that her convictions about humanity's obsession with power and war had been verified. Humanity never really changes and would revert to savagery...

She signs her letters as Aunt George or (her family nickname) Aunt Chav. She often describes theatrical events she has been to, and books she has read. She offers White career advice, telling him for...

Even writing after the outbreak of the next war, EBO expressed approval of the early days of Mussolini 's Fascism and its routing of turbulent communistic elements in Italy, but having built a house...

This novel is an extraordinary tour de force in taking Lawrence's patterns of thought and speech to write a refutation, through a female narrator (his protagonist herself), of his sexual theories. EF traces forwards both...

RF 's earliest travelling companion, Armorel Meinertzhagen , became her good friend. Forbes made personal contacts easily, and exacted help on the road from all sorts of highly unlikely individuals, one of them Benito Mussolini

She observes that she can write at first hand about most of the men who—to-day—are making war, or struggling to prevent it in three continents. The dominant figures of Hitler and Stalin are flanked...

RF published when Mussolini had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie , but before Queen Wilhelmina had fled from home before the invading Nazis , or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany...

NJ , a virtual refugee from Mussolini 's antisemitic regime, reached London from Sirmione in Italy by way of St Raphael in the south of France and Gibraltar.

She later entered municipal politics in the London borough of Marylebone, making an impassioned speech in support of the Socialist candidate. After that she was adopted as candidate for several elections herself, but was...