Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Pietro Cardinal Mam, 73, cosmographer, critic of Fascism, friend to the Royal House of Italy; at Pisa. Given his red hat along with the late great Cardinal Mercier, twice a candidate for the Papacy, he performed the marriage ceremony between Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and Princess Marie José of Belgium last January...
Your Jan. 12 issue reported a statement by Filippo Tomaso Marinetti, citizen of Italy and disciple of Fascism, inveighing against spaghetti and other wheat paste products as inducing "torpor and pessimism." Signer Marinetti proposed to reduce the consumption of macaroni, spaghetti and kindred foods whose popularity now necessitates the importation of considerable quantities of wheat, as well as the finished product, chiefly from America. His plan involved the substitution of synthetic foods, on the basis that macaroni products are not "sufficiently dynamic" for hardy patriots...
Next move of Satan is to create "from the most lurid infernal material" Francesco Saverio Nitti and make him Prime Minister of Italy. Under Nitti Bolshevism almost strangles Fascism, but God the Father in the nick of time sends Hero Garibaldi in a dream to Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio. Counseled by Garibaldi, aided by Mussolini, d'Annunzio rushes to the rescue of the Roman Victory, severs her chains and leads her triumphant to Fiume...
Satan's last stand is made when he replaces Nitti as Prime Minister with the still more sulphureous and infernal Giovanni Giolitti. Bolshevism is about to seize Italy once more. In this supreme emergency the Unknown Soldier descends from Heaven, rushes to the aid of Il Duce and Fascism, and the glorious March to Rome is planned...
...William James. I myself am a great admirer of Emerson and James. In the field of statesmanship Washington, Franklin and more lately Roosevelt are names which arouse our admiration." Bolshevism: "Our trade relations with Russia are of economic value to us, but they do not affect our internal policies. Fascism and Bolshevism are still at the antipodes, both in theory and practice. Proof of this is afforded by appeals, constantly sent out to the proletariat of the world by the Third International at Mos cow to fight Fascism to death." Idleness. "Unemployment is causing anxiety in Italy...