Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral purification [of] the whole Italian atmosphere." Said Sforza: "What is dangerous and morally intolerable is the malicious whispering carried on by Fascist-minded persons who have been kept in official positions by the Badoglio Government or by Allied authorities. . . . I am sure [Badoglio] hates and loathes Fascism. The evil comes mainly from . . . 'court circles' where everything is tried . . . to set the stage for a general acquittal of Fascists...
Italy's fate could not be determined by a simple choice between "Democracy" and "Fascism." Many an Italian realized that, like German Naziism (see p. 25), Italian Fascism sprang from the national body, and that the nation would have to make full retribution. In the first days after the Duce's downfall Milan's Sette Giorni said...
...Imperialism. Democracy, the students resolved, cannot win the peace if Fascism is not crushed; significantly, they demanded that their governments break relations with Francisco Franco's Spain...
...issue the Congress reached a stalemate: the character of World War II. Two motions on this were voted equally-one, that it is a democratic, antiFascist, liberating war; the other, that it is an imperialist war among the great powers for world control. Fascism had convinced Latin American students of its evils; the Allies had not yet convinced them of Allied aims...
...Northern Italy, Puppet Premier Mussolini's "official" radio blamed Italian newsmen for the fall of Fascism: "The poisonous atmosphere of general suspicion that made possible the treachery of [Premier Pietro] Badoglio and the triumph of defeatism . . . was largely due to shortcomings in the field of . . . journalism...