Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks later Calhoun was kicked out of the country for a story that called Mussolini that "elderly butcher boy of Fascism" - and rather than send another correspondent, we closed the Rome Bureau. In the face of wartime censorship there was no chance in Italy for TIME'S kind of reporting...
...making, or might some day make "expedient" deals with Fascists. Said he: "The basic traditions and ideals of this Republic are being closely followed in U.S. foreign policy. "We shall not be able to claim that we have gained total victory in this war if any vestige of Fascism in any of its malignant forms is permitted to survive in the world...
...Germans set the stage with care. For a week they plugged the new "Republican Fascism." Then, when Joe Goebbels' men judged the temper right, they played a muffled recording of the Duce's voice, followed by the crashing notes of Giovinezza and brisk translations in all important languages. Said Mussolini in his supervised 15-minute comeback...
...Fascism that betrayed the monarchy. It was the monarchy that betrayed Fascism. . . . Take up arms again. . . . Eliminate the traitors. . . . Give Italy a place near the sun. Long live the new Fascist Republican party...
Feeling and Belief. Toscanini's personal fight with Fascism began in 1922, when he first defied a request to play Giovinezza at Milan's La Scala Opera House. When the Fascists started to agitate for control of La Scala's policies in 1929, Toscanini resigned as director. Two years later, at a concert in Bologna, the peppery little maestro again refused to conduct Giovinezza, saying publicly that, in his opinion, it was not music at all. After the concert a Fascist mob beat him up, Fascist authorities temporarily confiscated his passport, and the Fascist Party surrounded...