Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ciano Career. Old hands at Statecraft consider that the young Count has had their metier's most meteoric career. His vigorous father Count Costanzo Ciano, Admiral and longtime Minister of Communications, was one of Italy's most conspicuous naval heroes of the War. In Fascism's early days Father Ciano was the first Italian of national prominence to join struggling Editor Benito Mussolini and become a Fascist. Son Galeazzo was a Fascist zealot before he was out of his teens. After a law degree at the University of Rome, he became theatre and book reviewer on Nuovo...
...however, the play is an interesting experiment. Its indictment of Fascism, if not always thoroughly convincing, is violent and often impressive. The theatre-going public owes itself a view of this production, particularly for comparative purposes. Technically the movie that is being produced at the present writing, according to reports, will probably be greatly superior to the play. Whether it will be superior in other respects remains to be seen...
Some months ago the Spanish people were told that they must choose either horn of the dilemma, Communism or Fascism. To none could the choice have been more odious than to the founders of the Spanish Republic, the opponents of monarchial government, and the writers of the liberal constitution. For these men knew that either horn was going to gore them-and the Spanish people-very badly...
...thought that enduring reform came only from an enlightened sports of peaceable compromise and free discussion. But their instrument of government was captured by Leftists and used for their own purposes, thus playing into the hands of another political group with a similar all-exclusive ideology, that of Fascism. In the background lay the stark facts that society was composed of the very rich and the very poor, that the original government rested upon a very small base of the middle-class...
...preposterous moral arguments about the abrogation of the gold clause, he replies with humor, and point to the obvious realities regarding promises to pay in gold that extend far beyond the resources of banks and governments. The curious and widely-accepted talk about the New Deal's communism or fascism, he answers with the support given it in those years by the representatives of the decidedly non-communist and non-fascist American people. The wailing over the holding companies is irrelevant, he writes, to what is simply "a revival of old-fashioned, hundred per cent American trust busting...