Word: croce
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...Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Mohandas Gandhi, Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Dwight Eisenhower, Charles Chaplin, Jean Sibelius, Benedetto Croce, Augustus John...
...Italy, four old men, from right of center, formed a Democratic Union as a counter to Communist-Socialist cooperation. Three were ex-Premiers: Vittorio Orlando, 85; Francesco Nitti, 77; Ivanoe Bonomi, 72. The fourth was famed Philosopher Benedetto Croce...
...designed to "bring literature's best to Argentina," ended by being Argentina's own best literary mouthpiece. It has brought to Argentina, in Spanish, Andre Gide, Benedetto Croce, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann. It has forwarded the reputation v of Argentine prizewinners like Jorge Luis Borges, Eduardo Mallea, provided a soapbox for promising Argentine newcomers like J. R. Wilcock, Vicente Barbieri. Sur claims only 3,000 circulation, loses money on every issue, but has wide influence. Victoria foots the bills...
...ahead to the Constituent Assembly elections next spring, the right wing feared lest it lose prospective votes by remaining in an unpopular coalition. First the Liberals, then the Christian Democrats and Labor Democrats walked out on the Actionists, Socialists and Communists. The six parties seemed irreparably parted. Cried Benedetto Croce's Liberals: "The era of antifascism should end, giving way to a new, peaceful constructive era of post-fascism. . . ." Protested Christian Democrat leader Alcide de Gasperi: "Fascism will never happen again. Never." Growled Pietro Nenni's Socialists: Italian reaction, egged on by Anglo-American capital, was plotting...
Most restive was Vice Premier Nenni, who had hoped to be Premier himself. But liberal Philosopher Benedetto Croce had voiced a general opinion: "Nenni, you cannot be Premier. First, because you are Nenni; second, because you have no idea of administration." Justice Minister Togliatti seemed content to let Nenni do most of the political talking and balking. But Togliatti's Communist followers were busy, especially in the dynamic, revolutionary north. There, the leftist-dominated Committee of National Liberation, in advance of the Allied occupation, had tightly organized local government and most of the region's great industrial plants...