Word: blackshirt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the Western world, he will perhaps be best remembered for his appearance before the League of Nations in Geneva on June 30, 1936. His country had been overrun by the Blackshirt battalions of Benito Mussolini, whose son-in-law, Count Ciano, ecstatically described the beauty of "bombs opening like red blossoms" upon the Ethiopian highlands. Hundreds of thousands of his barefoot soldiers had been killed by Fascist bombs and mustard gas. A small, bearded, hawk-faced figure with blazing black eyes, he stood at the lectern and declared: "I am here today to claim the justice that...
...West End World. His first wife, Cynthia Curzon, daughter of a marquess and granddaughter of a Chicago multimillionaire, made racy copy. Wrote one gossip columnist: Lady Cynthia attended a theater opening "well on the gold standard in a glittering sequined coat." Her sister Alexandra was nicknamed Ba-Ba-Blackshirt...
...businessmen, professionals, youth and the 70% of Italian workers who are nonunionized. The party has issued a doctrinaire platform calling for "authority with liberty," a strong presidential form of government, curbs on strikes, and worker representation in management. More important, Almirante is shrewdly changing MSI's image from blackshirt to button-down...