Word: brescia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vanity: "We have them in every important city in the north-Milan, Genoa, Turin. There we are roughly equal with the enemy. They outnumber us in Sesto San Giovanni. We outnumber them 3 to 1 at Varese . . . by 4 to 1 at Bergamo and 2 to 1 at Brescia. . . ." Milan's A.C. was not the only Catholic resistance group. In Rome (and elsewhere) Catholic youths organized and marched...
...Communist organizers make their blunders, too. Recently the Brescia Communist daily La Verita devoted most of its space to a completely phony story about "Gary Cooper Addressing Communists of Philadelphia." Communist popular songs are often unintentionally funny. Sample: "Stalin is even better than bread for the people. Just to see his face is to want madly to kiss...
While the Ministers were taking their oath, crowds before A.M.G. headquarters in Milan shouted for bread and work. In Turin, Pavia, Brescia and Novara there were similar demonstrations. In Ferrara and Modena mobs broke into the jails, Tommy-gunned to death some 30 Fascist prisoners...
...Switzerland. Several Swiss newspapers, including the Tribune de Geneve, were banned. Fascist Mouthpiece Virginio Gayda issued a stern warning to the Swiss press to stop printing what he called "unneutral" war news. The rest of the Italian press immediately took up the cry in shriller tones. Cried Popolo di Brescia...