Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Gaetamo Salvemini, 83, Italian-born, U.S.-naturalized historian and author (What Is Culture?), longtime (50 years) professor of history (Florence, Pisa, Harvard), who fled Mussolini's Italy but continued to work his vitriolic pen against Fascism; after long illness; in Sorrento, Italy...
...lies and suppression of spiritual freedom were only convulsions of a transitional period." But "the Hungarian tragedy-so heart-sickening and nerve-rending, particularly for old Communists," had destroyed "the last hope, the last illusion. While we believed we were fighting for freedom and right and against fascist barbarism, fascism and barbarism have risen again behind us, in word and deed and spirit...
...looking than his 42 years, Antonio Giolitti bears one of Italy's biggest political names. His Liberal grandfather was five times Premier of pre-Mussolini Italy, and it is still remembered that "under Giolitti 100 lire in paper was worth 101 in gold." Young Antonio, brought up under Fascism, became a Communist in 1940, organized the famed partisan Garibaldi division during the war, was badly wounded fighting in his native Piedmont mountains. Trading on his war record (and his grandfather's name), he was a great vote-getter and a comer in Communist politics. "Piedmont always votes...
Died. Curzio Malaparte (real name: Kurt Suckert), 59, Italian writer (Kaputt, The Skin), polemical journalist and unorthodox cinema writer-director-producer (Forbidden Christ, called in the U.S. Strange Deception); of lung cancer; in Rome. Born in Tuscany of a German father, Italian mother, Malaparte was called Fascism's "strongest pen" during the '203, turned hostile to the regime and was interned (1933-38), most recently accepted Italian Communist financing of a trip this spring to China, but on his return, seriously ill, was baptized a Roman Catholic. Despite his erratic politics, his more than two dozen books, which...
...Policy Association have asked in 1938: How long can the U.S. effectively attempt to bar the admission of Manchukuo to the League of Nations? Would Harper's, Atlantic and the New Republic have insisted on doing business with Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini in the name of coexistence with Fascism? Liberals would have us adopt policies toward de facto Communist states which they vehemently opposed when applied to de facto Fascist states...