Word: cist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roberto Farinacci, 44, was one of the first to rally to Mussolini when the Fas cist! were formed, was rewarded by being made Party Secretary in 1925 but mysteriously lost his job next year. Farinacci joined up during the Ethiopian War, fought courageously, lost his right hand when a hand-grenade he was carrying exploded. He has had no official status for eleven years, but lately Rome has under stood he was due for important recognition...
...like a thorough bred horse and sent his soldiers into Africa. Viva Il Duce!" Next morning Achille Starace's men captured Gondar, and within three days the first Italian troops reached the shores of Lake Tana. In Rome the Rearing Horse was tractable enough to fill the Fas cist Press with soothing statements that Italy had had every intention of maintaining Britain's rights to the waters of the lake. "After all," announced a Foreign Office attache, "Britain's interests in Ethiopia are hydraulic, ours are territorial!" Marshal Badoglio, smiling over the pins in his staff...