Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...53rd birthday of Benito Mussolini fell last week in the astrological sign of Leo the lion. No Italian newspaper mentioned the fact because Fascism is a youth movement, the title of the Fascist anthem is "Youth" (Giovanezza), and Mussolini must remain always young. Last week his wife gave a family birthday party and, for a birthday present, Il Duce got word from his Ethiopian Viceroy Field Marshal Graziani that Italian and native troops had surprised an Ethiopian force trying to break up the north road out of Addis Ababa, had killed...
Hard-headed Charlie Taft scoffs at the idea of a U. S. autocracy or Fascism. To him Al Smith, Mark Sullivan and Republican alarmists who proclaim the New Deal's march toward dictatorship are simply shadow-boxing with political phantasmagoria of their own making. As for Franklin Roosevelt's broken campaign promises of 1932, he asserts that any politician who maintains complete consistency "assumes his own infallibility and will destroy his country if he stays in power." An invitation to him to deliver a Lincoln's Birthday address last winter was promptly withdrawn after a brief statement...
...accounts of political exiles from Italy and Germany range from atrocity stories to philosophical discussions of dictatorship, seldom give concrete evidence of how Fascism makes its appearance on the plain streets of some familiar environment. Last week an ironic little volume by a onetime member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies gave U. S. readers a vivid, thought-provoking picture of the various ways native Sardinians-radicals, innocent bystanders, Fascists-reacted to the bewildering news of Mussolini's march on Rome on Oct. 30, 1922, changing sides at the last moment, heroically jumping before the steam roller...
Chief distinction of Road to Exile, however, is Lussu's malicious portraits of his colleagues who first pledged undying enmity to Fascism, then became prudently neutral, eventually turned Fascist. At one meeting Signer Pietro Lissia told Lussu that unless the cause of liberty was defended to the last drop of blood, it would be a lasting disgrace ''for us and for our sons." Then he added: ''Not that I have any sons myself." He next appeared as the representative in Sardinia of Mussolini's Government...
...indeed Ethiopian savages can be brought to civilized citizenship so soon. Last week Il Duce, with his plans and hopes for the new Italian Empire spreading decades ahead, indulged at Rome in no bombast or boasting, received with Augustan calm an amazing series of capitulations to Italy and to Fascism...