Word: duces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realizing what elsewhere remains a mere promise . . . The instinctive certainty that Fascist justice will know how to reward him who shows a wish to rehabilitate himself gives me the best hope for an early return to my family. It will stimulate me to . . . become more deserving of the Duce's generosity in the climate of the new imperial Italy...
...enemies, Mussolini began to do his utmost to appease the friends. As Biographer Monelli sees it. he was terrified into terrorizing Italy. In 1925, "the Fascist regime became a regime of force," all opposition was suppressed, total censorship clamped on the newspapers. His followers made sure that the Duce's balloon of a phony identity was not punctured by public scorn. They kept him surrounded by "policemen in various disguises" playing the equally phony role of "fanatical admirers." These cops, known as "the Presidential Division," became so expert at exaltation that sometimes even Mussolini suspected they were...
...tougher followers drove him half-crazy simply by knowing that he was incapable of being the man he pretended to be. When the Duce tried to conduct the Ethiopian war from his office chair, Marshal Badoglio only growled: "What fool in Rome is telegraphing this rubbish to me?" and curtly cabled back: "Leave me alone...
Death of a Lover. As the war advanced, the Duce became more and more of a rear light. He spent hours doodling at his great table or concocting headlines for the morning papers. According to Monelli. he even began to lose interest in one of his chief pleasures-that of "receiving" a woman in his office every afternoon. If she was unattractive, the Duce talked to her; if she was pretty, he hurled her onto the carpet ("You can't refuse a man of that importance," said one such lady), and then went straight back to his desk while...
...Konrad Adenauer ... It is recognized that West Germany is the key to the economic and political future of Western Europe, and that now includes the U.S. . . . West Germany could have been a powder keg to pro duce chaos . . . and the freedom-loving people of the world owe Adenauer a great deal. My God ! What if another rabble-rouser had come to the top ? ARTHUR H. HASCHE Watertown...