Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political exile from Fascism or Naziism has a difficult time traveling about Europe these days. The man who would be arrested on sight in one Axis country would probably find conditions uncomfortably hot for him in the other. Since the Rome-Berlin Axis cuts Europe squarely in two, this state of affairs compels an exile going from eastern Europe to western Europe, for example, to chart a circuitous route...
...service when his 1928 Polar expedition ended with the crack-up of the dirigible Italia which killed eight crew members, ended Italy's lighter-than-aircraft dreams. In his small flat near the Tiber, where few friends dared visit him, Umberto Nobile silently endured the usual fate of Fascism's failures-ostracism. Only honor left was his membership in the Pontifical Academy of Science, conferred by the late Pius...
...Cremona last week drove Premier Mussolini, interrupting his crop inspection long enough to judge an exhibition of paintings entered in a competition to illustrate one of two prescribed subjects. He saw 44 pictures depicting the "State of Mind Created by Fascism," 79 pictures of "People Listening to a Radio Speech by Il Duce." Apparently Il Duce did not like the way people listen to his radio speeches. He awarded no prizes in that category. To State-of-Mind-Painter Luciano Richetti, Il Duce gave $2,725, congratulated him for showing "true Fascist spirit...
despair . . . black reaction . . . Fascism...
...that at no time during the past century had the Christian Church faced such opposition as it does today. Of 735.000,000 people in Europe and America, nearly one-third disclaim connection with Christian churches. Many more millions are being evangelized by the anti-Christian religions of Communism and Fascism. In the whole world, the spread of Christianity in the last decade has lagged behind the increase in heathen and pagan populations: Christians number only 737,000,000 of the world's 2,200,000,000 people...