Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome radio told of popular demonstrations in the Italian cities against Fascism and for the King. This might be propaganda, designed to convince Washington and London that Italy had a truly fresh government. It might be the beginning of a bid for a peace with terms, despite the Allied insistence on "unconditional surrender." Many an allied citizen, still troubled by Darlanism in North Africa, had reason to be troubled lest Savoyism crop up in the Italian peninsula. The U.S. State Department would not say whether it classed the House of Savoy as Fascist; neatly it put that issue...
...inside of many a prison; he had come to loathe confining walls. In World War I his principles had shifted: he had become an imperialist and a nationalist; he had started on the path to lofty offices, an open balcony, spreading maps of empire and the windy vista of Fascism...
...anxious over AMGOT. Some Britons were displeased with the choice of Major General Lord Rennell of Rodd as the real civil administrator of Sicily under General Alexander. A veteran diplomat, a banker and an Oxford Grouper Lord Rennell had been a friend of Italian big business, which backed Fascism. Said the New Statesman and Nation: "That he knows the country intimately may be conceded, but . . . will it be easy for groups which might organize a popular mass movement . . . to deal with...
...last sunset of Fascism was falling on Palermo, the capital and largest city of Sicily, and still the Americans had not arrived. Major General Giuseppe Molinero and his suite waited in their car, peering down a road...
...Sicily the Allies might uncover the true temper of Italy after three years of battle, privation and defeat; her will to resist further, her loyalty to Fascism...