Word: antifascist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 61, archbishop of Bologna. A jovial and unpretentious man who six years ago was still a parish priest, Lercaro is now the most popular bishop in Italy. A wartime antiFascist, he made a postwar reputation in such Communist strongholds as Ravenna and Bologna, where he took the sting out of the Reds' propaganda by putting his weight behind social reforms. Hard-working as any Communist, he put on a spectacular Catholic youth festival in Bologna's Margherita Gardens (called the "Red Gardens") last month, outfacing Bologna's Red mayor (TIME, March 30). Lercaro feels...
...Cardinal Archbishop of Bologna, Giacomo Lercaro, 61, known as the most unconventional cardinal in the college and one of the most papábile (Italian for papal timber). Only six years ago, jovial, friendly Giacomo Lercaro was a mere parish priest, but one who had distinguished himself as an antiFascist. During the war he preached outspokenly against the Germans, aided partisans and sheltered refugees so effectively that eventually he was forced to flee for his life to a monastery cell. In 1947, when the Communists were riding high, the Vatican made Father Lercaro an archbishop and packed...
...course of his work, von Einsiedel learned Russian, and traveled for thousands of miles in the Soviet Union. What he saw there, and at the "antifascist school" he attended for training as a revolutionary, slowly and painfully peeled the scales from his eyes...
Inevitably, the gang fell apart. Gino became a pervert and ended his life in jail. Carlo scrambled off to fight in Ethiopia and died for II Duce. Giorgio, the leader, became an antiFascist; it was he who taught Valerio that life meant more than the flashy nihilism of the Blackshirts...
...December 1936, a 33-year-old Englishman named Eric Blair arrived in Barcelona to have a look at Spain's civil war and write some pieces about it. A radical in politics and an antiFascist, he decided to fight instead, and enlisted in a militia outfit. Seven months later, badly used up and sporting the scars of a near-fatal bullet hole through his neck, he went back to England and wrote a book about his experience. It was not a popular book because it was antiCommunist, and the fashion then was to cheer the Communist-controlled "Popular Front...