Word: anti-fascist
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...incident involving the tug of war between the sexes in a pointless marriage. Two seemingly compatible people are brought down by a typical Pavese monster: ennui. Not much here, but short and clean; no wasted words. The House on the Hill has bigger aims. Pavese was an anti-Fascist who was put in prison by the Mussolini regime, and then exiled to Calabria. Actually, he failed to do much more than sympathize with those who risked their lives. He was a fighter through the mouth, and it troubled him. The timid schoolteacher in The House on the Hill is again...
...national Communist who eluded the Stalin purges in Rumania was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, a hardhanded railroad worker turned revolutionary. During the war, while Ana Pauker hid safely in Moscow, Dej and his associates organized anti-fascist resistance or else languished in the cells of various Rumanian prisons. By 1952, Dej and the nationalists who remained in the party had gained enough control in the Politburo to purge Ana Pauker. Dej still hewed cautiously to the Stalinist line, remained friendly with Moscow even after the dictator had died and been denounced. There were signs of the break to come, however...
...economist from industrial Turin in northern Italy, Saragat belonged to the Socialist party directorate as early as 1925. He spent the Fascist years in exile in Austria and France, returning to Italy in 1943 and joining the first anti-Fascist government. Because he bitterly opposed the "unity of action" pact with the Communists, Saragat broke with the Socialists to form his own party. In his long career, Saragat has ably filled posts ranging from Ambassador to France to Foreign Minister...
Died. Alberto Tarchiani, 79, Italy's Ambassador to the U.S. from 1945 to 1955, when he rallied U.S. moral and monetary support for Italy's new republic; an early, outspoken anti-Fascist who, as editor of Milan's influential Corriere della Sera in the early 1920s, and later as an indefatigable agitator exiled in Paris, was so unrelenting a foe of Mussolini's that he eventually found himself near the top of Il Duce's must-kill list; in Rome...
MacColl said he did not know the reason for the refusal, but speculated it may have stemmed from what he called "anti-fascist" activities during the '30s. He denied having ever been a member of the Communist party, and stated that his American-born wife, half-sister of Pete Seeger '40, had "never even joined the Girl Scouts...