Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Liquidated the last remnant of the Vatican v. Fascism quarrel of last June by ruling that members of the Fascist Party may again belong to the Catholic clubs Azione Cattolica and vice versa. Spurred Italy's rapidly expanding mer chant marine by inducing all the larger Italian lines to merge last week into a new operating trust, the Lloyd Orientale. The mammoth merged fleet includes Vulcania (Cosulich), the Conte Grande and Conte Biancamano (Lloyd Sabaudo). Rumor named Count Costanzo Ciano. Minister of Communications and father-in-law of Daughter Edda. as the destined board chairman of Lloyd Orientale, thus...
...wipe out the effects of the Pope's message by 1) establishing a separate Party bureau for Balilla propaganda, granting it $50,000 from the Party coffers forthwith; 2) mobilizing the entire party (873,000 adults and 642,000 youths) on the Piave battlefields as a demonstration that Fascism is a military force not to be underestimated...
...Palazzo Venezia last week, Il Duce summoned and addressed the Directorate of Fascismo. The session was secret, but a summary of what Premier Mussolini said was issued. In substance he pictured Pope Pius as surrounded by a Vatican camarilla who concealed from His Holiness every fact favorable to Fascism and furthermore concealed from the Holy Father that Azione Cattolica was plotting against the State...
...charged was in his possession - "documentary proof." He declared that after the Italian Government suppressed all parties except the Fascist Party, members of the former Catholic Party took refuge in Azione Cattolica, soon made it political. As time passed, continued Premier Mussolini, numerous and nondescript elements hostile to Fascism have taken refuge from the Law by joining Azione, have evolved an organization which is subversive of the Italian State...
...Fascism says it is Catholic and wishes to be Catholic. Now in order to be Catholics not in name only but in deed also; in order to be true, good Catholics, not Catholics of false name and Catholics who in the great family of the church wound the heart of Mother Church by their manner of speaking and acting and give such a bad example as to drive others away, there is only one indispensable means?to obey the Church and its head and to think with the Church and its head...