Word: balilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...execution was on a quite different pattern, one already known and hated as Fascism: free thought was abolished, the individual became subordinated to the state, the human bill of rights was suppressed and the secret police became the main arm of government. Soon little boys, well-shod and sporting Balilla-like uniforms, were marching in the wake of Salazar's blackshirt-type Legido (Legion), which gave the stiff-arm salute and chanted: "Who leads? SALAZAR...
...Benito Mussolini it had been a Latin pageant: the refurbishing of old Roman monuments and the building of new ones; marshland drained and colonies settled; a corporative state and the Balilla; adventure in Corfu, Ethiopia, Spain, Albania, Greece and Egypt; the dream of Mare Nostrum and the grandest of Mediterranean empires...
...good a thing for totalitarianism to miss. Instead of the Scouts' motto, "Be Prepared." Italy's Balilla leaders preached: "Believe, Obey, Fight"; instead of democracy, "Mussolini is always right." Naziism began its youth organizations with a will, started pumping them full of fine Nazi phrases: "There is no greater honor than death for the Führer," "Command and we follow...