Word: anti-fascist
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Italy's new Premier, gentle Ivanoe Bonomi, got a rough ultimatum from London: put ex-Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio back in the Cabinet, or else. For Italy's anti-Fascist politicians, proud of their "pure-of-Fascism" Government, it was a grievous blow...
Last week a mob of anti-Fascist Italians sacked the Roman villa of Beniamino Gigli, famed tenor, who in 1932 quit the Metropolitan and returned to Italy in a huff after refusing to accept a depression pay-cut. Tenor Gigli was accused of friendliness with Nazi officials in Italy...
...expressed doubts as to whether certain territories of Yugoslavia could be called "liberated" in the strictest sense of the word. Well, I entered Partisan territory ten miles behind the fighting line, traveled 25 miles in an automobile, saw a Partisan train, and visited the last session of the Anti-Fascist Youth Congress. Now three barefoot urchins are arranging a bouquet of cherry blossoms by a pool under a huge walnut tree. This is liberated enough...
...Gaetano Salvemini, spade-bearded, spade-calling onetime anti-Fascist Italian legislator, Harvard historian (What to Do with Italy; TIME, Sept. 13), now teaching at University of California's Berkeley campus, pinned another of his poison-ivy notices on the laurel & olive of U.S. foreign policy. "Roosevelt and Hull know less about Europe than I know about Kentucky," he told West Coast newspapermen. "To be very frank, the policies of Roosevelt and Churchill so far as Europe goes are crazy. They don't know anything about it, and have poor advisers." Two days later the Hollywood Writers' Mobilization...
...shocked Naples on the way toward recovery. Now the city gets regular street washings. Over the radio the Regional Commissioner appeals to Italian patriotism to help stamp out black markets. He has granted labor unions collective bargaining, encouraged a manufacturers' association. In Naples he has installed veteran anti-Fascist administrators. In the suburbs, too, he has restored democratic forms of government, helped industrialists, workers and peasants get representation on local councils, prodded the average Italian into talking over public problems in public meetings...