Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most noisome of the "bad Germans" is stocky, pushing Wolfgang He.dl.er, 50, an early Nazi, now a formally denazified member of Bonn's Bundestag. Hedler's denazification is skin-deep. A reactionary Deutsche Partei man, he believes that Hitler's defeat was no failure of fascism; it sprang from the "treason and sabotage of the resistance movement." Last November in Einfeld Hedler boldly harangued a crowd of refugees, disgruntled farmers, ex-officers and soldiers...
...Premier's voice droned on. He drew a sharp historical parallel. More than a quarter century ago Red chaos had paved the way for Fascism; now the Communists were again pursuing tactics of conflict and disruption. De Gasperi reviewed recent violent events, dwelling particularly on last month's Communist-led riots in Modena, where police shot down six strikers...
...first months of Fascism, he was slow to realize what Mussolini stood for. But when dictatorship established itself, he turned his back on Rome. In Naples, he edited a scholarly anti-Fascist magazine called La Critica, defied the government with his book History as the Story of Liberty. Once a band of young Black Shirts threatened to storm his home, fled when confronted by Signora Croce. Beyond that, the Fascists never dared to molest the Croces. "There is one man in all Italy whom I fear," Mussolini once remarked-"Croce. And I fear him because I do not understand...
Those who reverently place wreaths beneath Garibaldi's memorial and those who kneel before the Virgin-many citizens do both-have long lived together in drowsy tolerance. But now, the heirs of Garibaldi are tainted with Marxism, the Catholics are accused of Fascism. The bitter struggle that rends all Italy recently broke out, in miniature, at Fiumicino. It was known as the Clock Fight...
Sixth Grade: Stalin's peace policy. How the U.S.S.R. in World War II crushed fascism in Europe...