My Autobiography | Benito Mussolini (Audio 11/13)
Major Intonio: Military History to your Ears
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'text': 'find romance in the fluttering of the'}, {'start': '59.399', 'end': '64.439', 'text': 'leaves on a bow as for me whatever I'}, {'start': '62.079', 'end': '67.280', 'text': 'might have been Destiny and my own self'}, {'start': '64.439', 'end': '70.080', 'text': 'have made me one whose eyes ears whose'}, {'start': '67.280', 'end': '72.799', 'text': 'every sense every thought whose entire'}, {'start': '70.080', 'end': '75.720', 'text': 'time entire energy must be directed at'}, {'start': '72.799', 'end': '77.680', 'text': 'the trunk of the tree of public Life The'}, {'start': '75.720', 'end': '79.960', 'text': 'Poetry of my life has become the Poetry'}, {'start': '77.680', 'end': '81.640', 'text': 'of construction the romance in my'}, {'start': '79.960', 'end': '84.320', 'text': 'existence has become the romance of'}, {'start': '81.640', 'end': '88.400', 'text': 'measures policies and the future of a'}, {'start': '84.320', 'end': '90.119', 'text': 'state these to me are rolent with drama'}, {'start': '88.400', 'end': '92.520', 'text': 'so it is that as I look back over over'}, {'start': '90.119', 'end': '94.680', 'text': 'nearly six years of leadership I see the'}, {'start': '92.520', 'end': '96.640', 'text': 'solution of problems Each of which is a'}, {'start': '94.680', 'end': '99.640', 'text': 'chapter in my life and a chapter in the'}, {'start': '96.640', 'end': '102.439', 'text': 'life of my country a chapter long or'}, {'start': '99.640', 'end': '104.560', 'text': 'short simple or complex in the history'}, {'start': '102.439', 'end': '105.960', 'text': 'of the advance and experimentation and'}, {'start': '104.560', 'end': '108.399', 'text': 'pioneering of'}, {'start': '105.960', 'end': '110.799', 'text': 'mankind I am not deeply concerned at'}, {'start': '108.399', 'end': '112.719', 'text': 'being misunderstood it is more or less'}, {'start': '110.799', 'end': '115.200', 'text': 'trivial that conspiracies go on to'}, {'start': '112.719', 'end': 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'text': 'find a new place for her in the general'}, {'start': '142.879', 'end': '147.480', 'text': 'March of civilization that I call up one'}, {'start': '145.599', 'end': '149.200', 'text': 'after another the recollection of my'}, {'start': '147.480', 'end': '152.160', 'text': 'recent battles over measures which'}, {'start': '149.200', 'end': '154.000', 'text': 'submerge men over policies which bury'}, {'start': '152.160', 'end': '156.200', 'text': 'under their Simplicity and weight'}, {'start': '154.000', 'end': '158.319', 'text': 'everything else I might have lived two'}, {'start': '156.200', 'end': '160.959', 'text': 'fields of my will and action of my'}, {'start': '158.319', 'end': '163.959', 'text': 'thoughts and my conclusions stand out as'}, {'start': '160.959', 'end': '165.800', 'text': 'I write and as I record my life itself I'}, {'start': '163.959', 'end': '169.239', 'text': 'think of all of them in terms of utter'}, {'start': '165.800', 'end': '170.840', 'text': 'Simplicity stripped of complex phrases I'}, {'start': '169.239', 'end': '173.319', 'text': 'have seen the futility of those who'}, {'start': '170.840', 'end': '175.400', 'text': 'endlessly speak streams of words these'}, {'start': '173.319', 'end': '177.760', 'text': 'words are like armies enlisted to go'}, {'start': '175.400', 'end': '179.440', 'text': 'away forever into the night never to'}, {'start': '177.760', 'end': '182.400', 'text': 'return from a campaign in which the'}, {'start': '179.440', 'end': '186.519', 'text': 'enemy are compromise of principle and'}, {'start': '182.400', 'end': '189.040', 'text': 'cowardice inaction and idealism without'}, {'start': '186.519', 'end': '191.360', 'text': 'realism there are those no doubt who'}, {'start': '189.040', 'end': '194.040', 'text': 'regard me or have once regarded me as an'}, {'start': '191.360', 'end': '195.920', 'text': 'enemy to the Peace of the world to them'}, {'start': '194.040', 'end': '197.920', 'text': 'there is nothing to say unless it be to'}, {'start': '195.920', 'end': '200.760', 'text': 'recommend my autobiography to them for'}, {'start': '197.920', 'end': '203.319', 'text': 'careful reading the record of facts is'}, {'start': '200.760', 'end': '205.440', 'text': 'worth more than the accusation of fools'}, {'start': '203.319', 'end': '207.480', 'text': 'from the first I wanted to renovate from'}, {'start': '205.440', 'end': '209.840', 'text': 'bottom to top the foreign policy of'}, {'start': '207.480', 'end': '212.200', 'text': 'Italy let it be remembered that I was'}, {'start': '209.840', 'end': '213.760', 'text': 'fully conscious always of the history'}, {'start': '212.200', 'end': '215.720', 'text': 'and the economic and spiritual'}, {'start': '213.760', 'end': '218.959', 'text': 'possibilities of my country in its'}, {'start': '215.720', 'end': '221.920', 'text': 'relation to the world such a renovation'}, {'start': '218.959', 'end': '224.760', 'text': 'such a remaking of policy was absolutely'}, 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'252.000', 'text': 'a finish old International political'}, {'start': '249.599', 'end': '254.920', 'text': 'tradition organization and existing'}, {'start': '252.000', 'end': '258.000', 'text': 'alliances and the status quo what an'}, {'start': '254.920', 'end': '260.239', 'text': 'error to inaugurate a firm stand does'}, {'start': '258.000', 'end': '262.639', 'text': 'not mean to revolutionize the course of'}, {'start': '260.239', 'end': '264.840', 'text': 'international dealings to demand a'}, {'start': '262.639', 'end': '266.320', 'text': 'better appraisal of Italy in accordance'}, {'start': '264.840', 'end': '268.479', 'text': 'with a correct audit of our'}, {'start': '266.320', 'end': '270.960', 'text': 'possibilities as a powerful and prolific'}, {'start': '268.479', 'end': '274.240', 'text': 'nation was only to reestablish our'}, {'start': '270.960', 'end': '276.720', 'text': 'rightful position my problem was to Open'}, {'start': '274.240', 'end': '279.000', 'text': 'the Eyes of 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'that he could not sense the delicacy of'}, {'start': '439.759', 'end': '444.000', 'text': 'his position in'}, {'start': '441.240', 'end': '446.319', 'text': 'Paris while in Italy events of historic'}, {'start': '444.000', 'end': '449.000', 'text': 'character were maturing homesickness for'}, {'start': '446.319', 'end': '450.479', 'text': 'lost power made him a bad servant of his'}, {'start': '449.000', 'end': '452.280', 'text': 'own country'}, {'start': '450.479', 'end': '454.120', 'text': 'he even went to the point of trying to'}, {'start': '452.280', 'end': '457.199', 'text': 'create difficulties for the fascist'}, {'start': '454.120', 'end': '459.160', 'text': 'government in the French Capital already'}, {'start': '457.199', 'end': '462.160', 'text': 'political groups there were unfavorable'}, {'start': '459.160', 'end': '464.960', 'text': 'to if not envious of any new solidarity'}, {'start': '462.160', 'end': '466.759', 'text': 'in Italy count sporza at once began to'}, {'start': 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'text': 'merely a sum of sentiments and'}, {'start': '493.039', 'end': '498.319', 'text': 'resentments as you wrongly think I bid'}, {'start': '496.120', 'end': '500.039', 'text': 'you now formally to keep your place and'}, {'start': '498.319', 'end': '502.720', 'text': 'not create difficulties for the'}, {'start': '500.039', 'end': '504.759', 'text': 'government in this moment the government'}, {'start': '502.720', 'end': '507.159', 'text': 'represents the highest expression of the'}, {'start': '504.759', 'end': '509.800', 'text': 'national conscience I am waiting for a'}, {'start': '507.159', 'end': '514.599', 'text': 'telegraphic answer and I reserve my'}, {'start': '509.800', 'end': '517.240', 'text': 'decision as to you musolini unquote to'}, {'start': '514.599', 'end': '519.719', 'text': 'this telegram count sza made an elusive'}, {'start': '517.240', 'end': '521.599', 'text': 'answer so I called him to Rome and after'}, {'start': '519.719', 'end': '523.959', 'text': 'some 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'text': 'on the delicate ground of treaties I'}, {'start': '602.120', 'end': '606.160', 'text': 'explained my position and suggestions in'}, {'start': '604.079', 'end': '608.839', 'text': 'a speech about foreign policy delivered'}, {'start': '606.160', 'end': '612.079', 'text': 'in the chamber November 16th'}, {'start': '608.839', 'end': '614.440', 'text': '1922 I said then as I always say that'}, {'start': '612.079', 'end': '616.760', 'text': 'treaties whether bad or good must be'}, {'start': '614.440', 'end': '619.200', 'text': 'carried out a respectable Nation can'}, {'start': '616.760', 'end': '621.720', 'text': 'have no other program but treaties are'}, {'start': '619.200', 'end': '624.560', 'text': 'neither Eternal nor irreparable they are'}, {'start': '621.720', 'end': '627.040', 'text': 'chapters of History not epilogues of'}, {'start': '624.560', 'end': '628.560', 'text': 'History speaking of foreign policy in'}, {'start': '627.040', 'end': '630.720', 'text': 'relation to the 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'end': '687.079', 'text': 'Richard wasburn child ambassador of the'}, {'start': '684.560', 'end': '688.639', 'text': 'United States in Rome and chief of the'}, {'start': '687.079', 'end': '690.040', 'text': 'United States delegation at the'}, {'start': '688.639', 'end': '692.200', 'text': 'conference'}, {'start': '690.040', 'end': '694.920', 'text': 'I eliminated also the question of the'}, {'start': '692.200', 'end': '697.760', 'text': 'DOTA canis to sum up my trip to'}, {'start': '694.920', 'end': '699.760', 'text': 'Switzerland these were the results first'}, {'start': '697.760', 'end': '701.240', 'text': 'we made clear to foreign diplomats the'}, {'start': '699.760', 'end': '704.079', 'text': 'new Prestige of'}, {'start': '701.240', 'end': '706.320', 'text': 'Italy second we gave examples of our new'}, {'start': '704.079', 'end': '708.320', 'text': 'style in foreign policy at the moment of'}, {'start': '706.320', 'end': '710.720', 'text': 'initiating a direct contact between'}, 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'text': 'happenings the new fascist style of'}, {'start': '1054.520', 'end': '1059.360', 'text': 'foreign policy had satisfied the'}, {'start': '1056.679', 'end': '1061.160', 'text': 'sensibility of all the Italians but I'}, {'start': '1059.360', 'end': '1063.400', 'text': 'admit that it had hurt the feelings of'}, {'start': '1061.160', 'end': '1065.400', 'text': 'many foreign Elements which saw in my'}, {'start': '1063.400', 'end': '1067.880', 'text': 'foreign policy something out of the'}, {'start': '1065.400', 'end': '1069.720', 'text': 'ordinary disturbing to many and'}, {'start': '1067.880', 'end': '1073.480', 'text': 'preventing plans opposed to the rights'}, {'start': '1069.720', 'end': '1075.320', 'text': 'of Italy I allowed nothing to deflect me'}, {'start': '1073.480', 'end': '1077.679', 'text': 'I made important declarations to the'}, {'start': '1075.320', 'end': '1079.840', 'text': 'Senate both as to the Greek incident and'}, {'start': '1077.679', 'end': '1081.520', 'text': 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show its Goodwill in any'}, {'start': '1161.600', 'end': '1166.320', 'text': 'case we now can look calmly into the'}, {'start': '1163.880', 'end': '1169.000', 'text': 'eyes of our troubled neighbor the'}, {'start': '1166.320', 'end': '1172.600', 'text': 'foreign program in 1924 obtained AED in'}, {'start': '1169.000', 'end': '1176.480', 'text': 'the Senate 315 favorable votes against'}, {'start': '1172.600', 'end': '1178.000', 'text': 'six with 26 absent in December of that'}, {'start': '1176.480', 'end': '1180.080', 'text': 'same year I had an interview with'}, {'start': '1178.000', 'end': '1183.039', 'text': 'Chamberlain new foreign minister of the'}, {'start': '1180.080', 'end': '1185.159', 'text': 'British Empire in the many events of'}, {'start': '1183.039', 'end': '1187.480', 'text': 'international character I have always'}, {'start': '1185.159', 'end': '1191.080', 'text': 'found him a friend of Italy and of'}, {'start': '1187.480', 'end': '1193.280', 'text': 'Italians in 1925 I 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'2006.039', 'text': 'to respect honestly accumulated wealth'}, {'start': '2003.639', 'end': '2008.320', 'text': 'and make everybody understand the value'}, {'start': '2006.039', 'end': '2011.519', 'text': 'not only economic but also moral moral'}, {'start': '2008.320', 'end': '2013.440', 'text': 'of inheritance transmittable in families'}, {'start': '2011.519', 'end': '2015.760', 'text': 'because of this though I had approved a'}, {'start': '2013.440', 'end': '2017.880', 'text': 'tax reform of great importance I'}, {'start': '2015.760', 'end': '2020.399', 'text': 'restored many basic rights such as the'}, {'start': '2017.880', 'end': '2022.399', 'text': 'right of succession it was made clear'}, {'start': '2020.399', 'end': '2024.639', 'text': 'that I would never approve subjecting'}, {'start': '2022.399', 'end': '2027.399', 'text': 'inheritance to a taxation which had'}, {'start': '2024.639', 'end': '2028.440', 'text': 'almost assumed a socialistic character'}, {'start': '2027.399', 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'the strength of its example to give'}, {'start': '2111.280', 'end': '2115.720', 'text': 'precise rules for the restoration of the'}, {'start': '2113.240', 'end': '2118.480', 'text': 'finances of the self-governing units in'}, {'start': '2115.720', 'end': '2120.520', 'text': 'communes and provinces but even that was'}, {'start': '2118.480', 'end': '2122.480', 'text': 'not enough we had to review the'}, {'start': '2120.520', 'end': '2125.400', 'text': 'financial situation of many a'}, {'start': '2122.480', 'end': '2127.200', 'text': 'corporation and Industry generally this'}, {'start': '2125.400', 'end': '2130.040', 'text': 'included all those Industries which were'}, {'start': '2127.200', 'end': '2131.640', 'text': 'quoted on the stock exchange by one of'}, {'start': '2130.040', 'end': '2134.040', 'text': 'those phenomena of national and'}, {'start': '2131.640', 'end': '2136.839', 'text': 'international speculations which are not'}, {'start': '2134.040', 'end': '2138.599', 'text': 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to our full ability the'}, {'start': '2293.520', 'end': '2298.640', 'text': 'last scent we owe without wailing or'}, {'start': '2296.359', 'end': '2301.760', 'text': 'complaint then came a gesture of'}, {'start': '2298.640', 'end': '2303.920', 'text': 'spontaneous National patriotism Our'}, {'start': '2301.760', 'end': '2305.920', 'text': 'People by public subscription and'}, {'start': '2303.920', 'end': '2308.040', 'text': 'without the help of the state paid the'}, {'start': '2305.920', 'end': '2309.440', 'text': 'first installment due the government of'}, {'start': '2308.040', 'end': '2312.359', 'text': 'the United'}, {'start': '2309.440', 'end': '2314.200', 'text': 'States I believed then that the security'}, {'start': '2312.359', 'end': '2315.839', 'text': 'of the budget and the agreements of'}, {'start': '2314.200', 'end': '2317.960', 'text': 'Washington and London would be'}, {'start': '2315.839', 'end': '2320.200', 'text': 'sufficient evidence to reassure our'}, {'start': 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'2503.520', 'end': '2508.960', 'text': 'people was being jeopardized in fact in'}, {'start': '2506.640', 'end': '2511.400', 'text': 'certain situations even the soundness of'}, {'start': '2508.960', 'end': '2514.359', 'text': 'a currency can assume the Dignity of a'}, {'start': '2511.400', 'end': '2517.440', 'text': 'flag and must be defended by every open'}, {'start': '2514.359', 'end': '2519.160', 'text': 'means one cannot entrench oneself behind'}, {'start': '2517.440', 'end': '2521.400', 'text': 'ignorance when the patrimony and the'}, {'start': '2519.160', 'end': '2523.560', 'text': 'Dignity of an entire people is being'}, {'start': '2521.400', 'end': '2525.400', 'text': 'threatened fascism which had put'}, {'start': '2523.560', 'end': '2527.119', 'text': 'discipline into the nation had to put'}, {'start': '2525.400', 'end': '2529.359', 'text': 'its firm hand on that class of'}, {'start': '2527.119', 'end': '2531.640', 'text': 'short-sighted speculators who wanted to'}, {'start': 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'end': '2612.280', 'text': 'to the moral shame and economic'}, {'start': '2609.079', 'end': '2614.599', 'text': 'catastrophe of the bankruptcy of the lra'}, {'start': '2612.280', 'end': '2616.880', 'text': 'the fascist regime will resist with all'}, {'start': '2614.599', 'end': '2619.400', 'text': 'its strength the attempts to suffocate'}, {'start': '2616.880', 'end': '2621.920', 'text': 'Italy being made by inimical Financial'}, {'start': '2619.400', 'end': '2625.119', 'text': 'forces we will squash them as soon as'}, {'start': '2621.920', 'end': '2627.480', 'text': 'they are identified at home the lra'}, {'start': '2625.119', 'end': '2629.640', 'text': 'which is the sign of our economic life'}, {'start': '2627.480', 'end': '2632.520', 'text': 'the symbol of our long sacrifices and of'}, {'start': '2629.640', 'end': '2635.160', 'text': 'our tenacious work will be defended and'}, {'start': '2632.520', 'end': '2637.640', 'text': 'it will be firmly defended and at any'}, {'start': 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'end': '2664.400', 'text': 'hidden in the'}, {'start': '2661.599', 'end': '2666.400', 'text': 'borses the great financial institutions'}, {'start': '2664.400', 'end': '2668.720', 'text': 'understood that it was not possible to'}, {'start': '2666.400', 'end': '2671.200', 'text': 'adopt in independent policies without'}, {'start': '2668.720', 'end': '2672.880', 'text': 'having to reckon with the government'}, {'start': '2671.200', 'end': '2675.960', 'text': 'speculators perceived that they had'}, {'start': '2672.880', 'end': '2678.880', 'text': 'fallen into a trap on the other hand I'}, {'start': '2675.960', 'end': '2680.440', 'text': 'did not want to confine myself to words'}, {'start': '2678.880', 'end': '2682.920', 'text': 'in the Council of the ministers on'}, {'start': '2680.440', 'end': '2686.240', 'text': 'September 1st I adopted measures which'}, {'start': '2682.920', 'end': '2688.760', 'text': 'were to guarantee my financial policies'}, {'start': '2686.240', 'end': '2690.960', 'text': 'these measures can be summed up transfer'}, {'start': '2688.760', 'end': '2692.920', 'text': 'of the Morgan loan of 90 millions of'}, {'start': '2690.960', 'end': '2694.920', 'text': 'dollar to the bank of Italy'}, {'start': '2692.920', 'end': '2697.040', 'text': 'regularization of the accounts between'}, {'start': '2694.920', 'end': '2699.920', 'text': 'the state and the bank of Italy'}, {'start': '2697.040', 'end': '2702.480', 'text': 'reduction of 2 b500 millions of the'}, {'start': '2699.920', 'end': '2704.839', 'text': 'circulation on account of the state'}, {'start': '2702.480', 'end': '2706.559', 'text': 'liquidation of the autonomous ex section'}, {'start': '2704.839', 'end': '2709.319', 'text': 'of the consortio'}, {'start': '2706.559', 'end': '2711.839', 'text': 'valori to all this was to be added a'}, {'start': '2709.319', 'end': '2713.839', 'text': 'broad simplification of Taxation with'}, {'start': '2711.839', 'end': '2716.000', 'text': 'abolition of certain taxes 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corporative'}, {'start': '2929.760', 'end': '2934.640', 'text': "system this concludes today's reading of"}, {'start': '2932.160', 'end': '2937.079', 'text': 'my autobiography by Bonito'}, {'start': '2934.640', 'end': '2939.720', 'text': 'musolini join us also the day after'}, {'start': '2937.079', 'end': '2942.200', 'text': 'tomorrow for the subsequent part'}, {'start': '2939.720', 'end': '2944.760', 'text': "subscribe to Major Antonio's"}, {'start': '2942.200', 'end': '2947.760', 'text': 'Channel thank you for listening and so'}, {'start': '2944.760', 'end': '2947.760', 'text': 'long'}]